The New Iraq War

I heard a retired General saying that we cannot start to leave Iraq. We have to forget everything that was screwed up by the previous (i.e., Bush ) administration and stay in for as long as it takes. Do you recall the recent unpleasantness on Okinawa? It seems an American soldier raped a local girl. We have soldiers on Okinawa after having defeated Japan in 1945. By my reckoning, that is 63 years. Why? (Oh, I already know the facile answers of strategic bushwa that have been spewed for 63 years.) I answer the General: It is Bush's War. It never was America's war. The American people were manipulated, lied to, and coerced into this infamy. Let Bush and Big Oil maintain their war. Let the NeoCons run it from whatever burrows they inhabit. Let Mr. Feith send troops to be killed from his hutch in Georgetown. Do not take over this abomination and call it America's!