Category: Iraq: The Present Crisis
Thursday, June 24, 2004
According to a new Gallup poll out today, Most Americans now say that sending U.S. troops to Iraq was a mistake.
I've been saying that on this blog at least since September 2002! It breaks my heart that it's taken hundreds of dead American soldiers (and who knows how many thousands of dead Iraqi soldiers and civilians) to clue in fifty percent of my fellow citizens...
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If you think anything I write here represents the opinions of anybody but myself, you need more help than I can give you. The opinions are all mine, folks. Nobody else's.
If that's too hard to understand... well, I'm sorry. There's only so much I can do. I'm not a therapist, and I'm not a miracle worker. I wish I could help you work through your delusional belief that I'm speaking for anyone else but myself. Honestly, I do. But in the end, that's a monkey you'll have to get off your back on your own. Sorry.
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Hindsight is always 20/20. At this point, it doesn't really matter if the majority thinks it was mistake. We're there. We started this. We have to finish it, we can't just abandon the Iraqi people again. Complaining and polling and whatever else doesn't change that we have a responsibility now and can't just up and leave because we're sorry we came.