winterbadger | just for the record: a comment I posted to geekchick's journal

I was watching TV while my car was getting lubed today, and they were interviewing Iraqis about the current state of affairs. One fairly non-zonko, non-fanatic, clean-cut, intelligent-sounding guy way saying "Things are bad. We cannot go out at night. We are not safe. Things are worse than under Saddam, much worse. I wish we had Saddam back; things would not be this bad."

Mr President, does that tell you anything?

I agree with the Puppet to this extent: we can't just cut and run now (as, it would appear, conservatives like Rep. Freedom Fries now want to). We've started it, we have to do whatever it takes to leave the coutnry at least as stable as it was when we invaded. But at the same time, I want some accountability. I want this president out of office; I want the people who planned the war out of a job, with no future in policy work, ever again. I want to see Bush signing letters to the families of men his war has killed. And I want to see people who are coming back with wounds and with PTSD treated like the heroes they are, with proper healthcare and pensions, even if they are "only" reservists.

I'm afraid, however, that I'm not going to see any of those things.

[Edit: Oh, and I'd like just once for the administration to stop pretending this war had a damn thing to do with 9-11. Not going to get that one either.]