"Obama Could Have Been More Gracious to Bush and the Surge"

If you can get past the nauseating psychopathic babble of the Bush administration lackeys in the beginning here, Jeremy Scahill makes some good points about the Iraq war-- and GRACIOUSLY points out the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died as a result of the US-led invasion. What Scahill didn't say, is that another reason "the surge" "worked" is that the US BOUGHT OFF many of the insurgents at the same time as troop numbers went up. What also can't be pointed out enough is that Iraq is a horrendous mess now.

But I guess the important thing is that we have our own installed Iraqi leader (until he goes rogue at some appointed time and needs to be removed), we have our non-permanent permanent military bases in Iraq, and we have our super-duper luxury embassy in Baghdad. All the money spent, all the lives wasted, all just amusement for the PTB and something for silly ordinary humans to fret about.