Happy Anniversary Happy Anniversary,

Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 11:32pm
Happy Anniversary, HAAAAAAAAAAAPPPY Anniversary!
Yep. It's the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq today. You might recall this is the war begun 5 years ago under false pretenses, with assurances that it would be over in 6 months. Despite millions of Americans protesting that it would be a quagmire and drive the US economy into the muck, possibly throwing Iraq into civil war, the war to topple the evil dictator Saddam Hussein (who was put into power by the US) went ahead.
Of course this war became a quagmire, threw Iraq into civil war and drove the US economy into the muck. The Bush administration is confounded by this "No
one expected the complications that have arisen, or that it could possibly drag out this long" they claim. Millions of us told them, but it's no surprise that they lie about that too.
There's another anniversary coming up in 6 weeks. It's also a 5th anniversary. It's the 5th anniversary of the day that Bush stood on the deck of the USS Lincoln and declared victory and an end to major combat operations in Iraq. A massive banner with the words 'Mission Accomplished' hung behind him. Damn those damned lying liars and their lies.
At a community college in Fayetteville, a military town in North Carolina, Mr. Obama noted that the war in Iraq had now lasted longer than the Civil War, World War I and World War II, though it has been fought on a scale far below those conflicts.
“Where are we for all of this sacrifice?” he said. “We are less safe and less able to shape events abroad. We are divided at home, and our alliances around the world have been strained.”
Mr. Obama criticized his rivals for their initial votes for the war. “Here is the stark reality,” he said. “There is a security gap in this country — a gap between the rhetoric of those who claim to be tough on national security, and the reality of growing insecurity caused by their decisions.”
He also seized on a gaffe Mr. McCain made Tuesday in Amman, Jordan, when he confused the main sects of Islam and the support for each from Al Qaeda, a Sunni dominated group, and Iran, a majority Shiite nation. Mr. McCain corrected his statement after Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who is traveling with him in the region, whispered in his ear.
“Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war in Iraq has done more to embolden America’s enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades,” Mr. Obama said.