Wouldn’t It Be Nice

Tonight President Obama will speak to the nation marking the official end to combat operations in Iraq. What a thankless task.

Wouldn’t it be nice to hear the President say that the US never needed to spend all the money it has, nor did it have the need to have wasted over 4400 lives or seen over 17,000 wounded American bodies?

Wouldn’t it be nice to hear the President say he could not fault the military in any way and quite to the contrary, he feels great pride at the bravery and professionalism of all who were asked to serve. On behalf of a grateful nation, it would be nice to hear him apologize to all the military members.

Wouldn’t it be nice to hear the President say the Government has learned an important lesson about nation building in the 21st century, and in particular in regions hopeless locked in the 15th century. This is not a place for Americans to venture.

Wouldn’t it be nice to hear the President apologize to the Iraqi people for having interfered with their internal affairs and in essence played god on who would rule the rest of Iraq. There is absolutely no reason to expect the Shiites will be any better rulers than the Sunnis. The Kurds might be the best of the lot but they could care less about the Arabs.

And, wouldn’t it be nice to hear the President say the Government renounced the idea of enhanced interrogation, secret renditions, and NSA domestic spying.

If the world was perfect, it would be nice to hear that George W Bush, Dick Cheney and all other chicken hawks (Wolfowitz, Pearle, Libby, etc) would be brought up on charges such as violating the Geneva Convention, intentional deception of the American people, and extensive use of warrentless surveillance. But it is not perfect and there is no political will to resurrect these skeletons much less make an overdue apology to all those whom the Iraq invasion and occupation hurt.

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