It’s not mandatory to know why the war started if the goal is to end it.
Why the Iraq war started may be left for historians or maybe even archaeologists to discover. But President Barack Obama has helped civilization to be definitive about the end of a war whose “ownership” could be claimed by a single person – George W. Bush.
Several joejolly posts during the Bush era asked when will the Iraq war end. And joejolly answered his question this way:
The Iraq war will end when the last barrel of Iraq oil is sold or when the last American soldier – standing in Iraq – falls.
Now that President Obama has answered the question of “when will the Iraq war end”, perhaps, for history’s sake – the question of why the Iraq war started may be in order.
In 2003, at his State of the Union Address, then President George W. Bush made this statement:
The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
It has been said that America’s President, George Washington, never told a lie. More recently a blogger suggested that:
if you believe you are telling the truth, you are not lying.
Were those 16 words that energized America’s neocons to war similar to the “writing on the wall”? Writing on stone is indelible.
Did the source of those 16 words ever revisit, in public, the accuracy of those 16 words? Perhaps those 16 words could be described this way?
The Moving Finger writes, and, having writ,
Moves on nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line.
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khaytyam
In 2003, the Bush Administration’s finger wrote(those 16 words). And having writ moved on.
The Iraq war ends today!
No, all America’s soldiers will not be coming home today. That would not make sense. But AMERICA’S CURRENT PRESIDENT IS NOT “DARING” Iraq terrorists to “bring em’ on”. You see, the neocons are “booty kickers”.
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