Travellinguist's Musings

Wall St. Journal Editorial about the "Exit Strategy"

The WSJ in their brilliant fashion once again opined that it was crazy to look for an Exit Strategy now that Iraq had held elections.... Fascinating because I thought our mission in Iraq was to find weapons of mass destruction which we didn't find so thus we have already overstayed our mission. I am glad for Iraqi elections and glad that with a government in place we can leave. We should never have gone incidentally but now we can leave.
The WSJ also seemed to ignore the Democrats contention that the insurgency in Iraq was against the US presence! UM how stupid are these money people. The insurgency is against us, the US, and if we left Iraq the people who hate us would have no more reason to kill us. They still might want to kill those who collaborated with their invaders but I guess that is the decision many Iraqis made to work with us. It is also amazing that we feel like we have to "train" the Iraqi armed forces... Last I checked they had a military and we dissolved it. In other words they had people with military training. If none of those are available then no wonder we are in such a fight there because they means that all the people who have military training are fighting against us. If not then President Bush is lying to us again just to keep troops there long enough for us to secure the oil spigot! Hmm war for oil.... No not us.....
The last stupid point from the Wall Street Journal is that we don't Honor the sacrifice of soldiers who died by leaving. So does this mean that the soldiers that die from now on are Honoring the sacrifice. I think that adding more US bodies to a pile of dead doesn't quite honor the dead it just creates more death and more misery, but hey what do I know I am just a Latino kid whose people are dying there in big numbers. I am not a big WSJ editorial writer with millions of bucks and not even a sniff of military duty in my family. I guess it is easy to talk about honoring sacrifices through more sacrifices when your family and friends won't have to be sacrificed on the pyre.

So to put none to fine a point on it. Fuck YOU, Wall Street Journal. Perhaps we should ship your whole fucking editorial board to Iraq so you can serve in the military and perform the "honoring" that you are so concerned about!

posted by travellinguist @ 5:39 AM