Stop calling the war on Iraq a mistake
Not a mistake.
A mistake is when you hammer your thumb instead of the nail. A mistake is when you choose c) instead of d) on the SAT. A mistake is when you put too much garlic in the minestrone. Invading Iraq was no damned mistake. And calling it a mistake is more than a mere slip of the tongue. It sets a precedent. Pretty soon, everybody will be saying invading Iraq was a mistake. And in 20 years, your grandkids will be studying out of textbooks that call it a mistake.
Instead of calling it what it really was. Sedition.
Over and over again for three years we’ve had our faces rubbed in the evidence. Yet, every day, someone calls this perfidious, murderous scheme a mistake. As if invading Iraq were a foreign policy mishap. Oopsy.
Stop it already. People do not commit treachery by mistake.
Quite.
Bush and co invaded Iraq for a variety of reasons: revenge for his daddy’s “humiliation”, for domestic political advantage, to destablise the Middle-East further and ensure ongoing US dominance of the region and its oil reserves, but not because they made a silly mistake.
The problem is, the US political establishment, Republicans, Democrats and all the media hangers-on by and large bought into the lies that brought us the war. They cannot but call the war a mistake now or they’ll have to own up to their own complicity!