The war was wrong, wrong from the beginning, launched on fraud and greed and stpid, blind ambition, with human lives paid for the game. War is always wrong, even when you cannot get out of it. More important, it is extraordinarily more wrong when you don't have to go into it, but choose to do so anyway. All the justifications, rationalization, weighty analyses of who said what, is not going to bring any of those wasted lives back or unspill any of the blood in the sands of Mesopotamia. ANd it was blood that did not have to be spilled. It was spilled because the men of the Bush power circle could not communicate and would not think. So they infected the world with their own, meat-headed bloody-mindedness and dragged nations into the abyss with them.

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