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TXANG Debate Re-Igniting?
Last night, the Pentagon revealed that new records of President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard have been found, due to a FOIA request. This morning sees a New York Times column (free reg. req.), and a detailed "reexamination of the records" by the Boston Globe. Tonight, 60 Minutes II airs an interview with the man who got Bush into the Guard (though my TiVo says otherwise for some reason).
No offense to you or your countrymen, but that old saying that was thrown around at the start of the Iraq mess still stands: you break it, you bought it. A majority of people in America supported invading Iraq - false information or no - and the flipside to catching Saddam in a hole was that you had to stay there and finish the job, no matter how ugly it got.
I think a lot of the world knew what you were in for, but you (collectively) were too riled up to wait. You, specifically, may be one of the minority who opposed the invasion to begin with, but sadly your opinion didn't matter then, and shouldn't matter now. Not to sound heartless, but Americans don't deserve the right to change their minds about Iraq anymore. Even if public opinion swings all the way around to 90% wanting the troops out tomorrow, it should not be allowed. The lives of millions of people in the Middle East depend on someone holding that house of cards together, and since you decided to shake things up, you have to fix it.
I feel very bad that over 1,000 troops have been killed over such a stupid thing as a vanity war, but they enlisted, and have to pay for the mistakes of the majority. If anything, hopefully all the funerals at home will change the mindset in America so that they think twice about invading other countries in the future. Doubtful.