Supporting and funding the invasion and occupation is a crime of the worst sort.

[ConsAreLiars]

Every day people who claim to be Democrats call for continuing the slaughter "with some conditions" is one more day that the Democratic Party's credibility and claim to any moral standing is further diminished. Those who support these atrocities may as well change their party affiliation, since their is nothing remotely "democratic" about their support for an imperialist war of aggression and the PNAC strategy for using military power to support global corporatism.

[patrice]

1. Honestly, What can anyone say to counter:

The death of one innocent person is murder, no matter what idealistic "justification" is claimed in this Damned War.
No WMD.
Dishonesty and cherry-picked intelligence.
Our military's capacity to defend us in other situations is being substantially damaged.
We supported Saddam Hussein for decades.
Saddam Hussein was a Secular monster who kept the Sunni and Shia from killing one another.
Ossama bin Laden was persona non grata in Iraq before we invaded, now he's a hero to a significant minority of Iraqis.
It was our buddies the Saudis who destroyed the WTC.
A weak Iraq makes Iran stronger.
Nation building is not our responsibility.
Iraqis will never forget who killed whom and revenge is a dish best served cold.
New terrorists are being spawned all over the Earth.
Killing all terrorists, wherever they are, is a tactical impossibility and even if it were possible it would require genocide.
No allies.
We have no means to correct the damage done by invading with too few troops.
Billions of $ wasted to no constructive effect.
Trillion$$ more needed to keep this up for the next ten years at least.
Our ability to deal with terrorism in other ways is paralyzed by being hog-tied in Iraq.
No matter how you define "success", all of the above means that the lives of our soldiers are being wasted. The longer we delay that inevitable recognition, the more soldiers will be wasted.

[ConsAreLiars]

2. Most of us who opposed this war from before the invasion and wrote

our "representatives" and marched in the streets knew most of this before it began. Yet even today many "Democrats" deny this reality and continue to assure their Corporatist backers that they have a more practical plan for maintaining dominance over that region.

And thus they prolong the slaughter. A million dead.

No surprise that the Republicans support mass murder in the service of Corporate Hegemony. They are blood drinkers and natural servants and sycophants. But those who label themselves as Democrats? They are either liars or fools.