The Iraq War turns two on Saturday, and I hope you will share the occasion thoughtfully wherever you find yourselves. Seattle's peace community will rally (12:00) at Seattle Center and march (1:30) to Westlake Center. I'll see many of you there, and invite extended discussion at my 11th Annual Potato Festival later in the day.
It is almost impossible to be coherent about the situation in Iraq. 1500 Americans dead. Over 10,000 maimed in mind and body. Too high a price for no increase in national security.
Today's "liberation" optimists give us the purple finger, but this evidence raises a sense of deja vu. The optimists were applauding on September 4, 1967, when our puppet government in Vietnam won national elections with 83% turnout. Eight years and 40,000 body bags later, the last liberators scrambled into helicopters on an embattled US embassy roof.
President Bush, with his usual cocksureness, tells us we'll stay until this "fragile democracy" is stable. The problem is we're in a guerrilla war, but we don't have the troops to fight one.
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