I can still remember the tears of rage and sorrow the Divine Mrs. M shed as the Iraq war kicked off in a campaign of "shock and awe" bombing. Hundreds of innocent civilians were killed and the stage was set for one of the most inept post war experiments in imposing democracy on a people wholly unprepared for the experience. Thousands of US troops stood around as Iraqi looters destroyed the infrastructure missed by American bombs.
The litany of American mistakes and hubris which eventually led to the deaths of over 4400 Americans and perhaps 200,000 Iraqis will continue to fill books for the forseeable future. A majority of my fellow citizens probably started out as war supporters, but many eventually opposed this example of unbridled nationalism due to the stupidity and incompetence with which it was conducted. The war was no more righteous than Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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