Amen, Amos, amen...

This is what this thread is all about... It was a mistake... A big mistake...

Vietnam was also a mistake but Vietnam was the model of what not to do and yet Bush and Co. did it anyway... I could almost understand Iraq if a president of Obama's age making the decision... Then I could say to myself, "Hey, they ddin't have a model..."

Bush had the model... Vietnam...

That makes Iraq even more painfull for our nation... We repeated behavior expecting different results...

Thank you, Amos, for bringing the reality of that mistake so vividly clear in terms of human loss and suffering... Unless the medai bring that part into our living rooms we sometimes forget that part of the story...

B~