Time for a novel idea: Lies got us in to Iraq, lies have been keeping us there, and lies should get us out.
There were no weapons of mass destruction, no connection to 9/11; we were not greeted as liberators. Those are the lies that got us into the war.
Things are not going well in Iraq. Lots of our soldiers are dying. Lots of Iraqi's are dying. Things are not going to get better. These are the lies that keep us in Iraq.
So lies should get us out. We could do the classic "declare victory and leave" that was suggested in Vietnam. Sure the reality will be chaos and death. But since when has reality mattered? Or maybe we could leave Iraq and the Bush administration could just lie and say we are still staying the course. That’s the ticket! US troops leave, Bush still give speech after speech about courage and stay the course and victory is near. The administration still feels like manly men and no more troopers will have to die for the sake of Bush's manhood. I bet we could just never tell Bush we've left Iraq and it will work out fine.
Lies get us in, lies get us out.
Only lies can save us now.
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Today Hungarians are getting hit with rubber bullets and tear gas because they're out in the street rioting because their president (prime minister?) lied about the economy to get elected. Which just goes to show how much smarter Americans are. We *know* everyone in the government lies all the time, not only to get elected, but to improve their image and manliness. So there is no point in making a fuss about it. Tut, tut, Hungary, when will you learn?
(By the way, that is all sarcasm. I can't believe that we are such sheep that even when the evidence shows that people are DYING because of these lies, no one fusses.)
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