To Queen And Country

I am sick and tired of an example after example of how the entire world is surpassing us in everything that makes us us. Fresh off the Iranian example yesterday where democracy (or at least the illusion of democracy) seems to have prevailed when Ahmadinejad's opponents succeeded in getting votes recounted. Another example of our never ending backwards journey is the UK. Britain has started an investigative probe in its involvement in the Iraq war. Mind you that is a war that they did us a favor by participating in, we were the ones who orchestrated it.

Not denying the British people the right to point the finger at their politicians who went along with Dubya's war but where is our investigative probe?

This is not the first time that I have called for an administration wide investigation into many things that took place during the Bush years including the Iraq war and I was criticized for it in the past. I was thought of as naive and unrealistic. I was told that something like this can never happen, well the British are doing it, why can't we?

Let me be perfectly clear, so I don't get all the hate messages from people who do not pay attention to details: I truly believe that Saddam Hussein was an evil tyrant. I truly believe that the Iraqi people are better off without him. I truly believe that Saddam was not even in the top five reasons why Bush decided to invade Iraq (top five however include the infamous three letter word). I truly believe that we could have helped the Iraqi people rid of Saddam in countless different ways that would not yield the 700,000-1,000,00 Iraqi civilian casualty or the 5000+ American soldier casualty, not to mention the Billions of dollars spent. Last fall, Exxon Mobile announced the biggest profitable quarter in the company's (or any company's) history, while most industries in the world were trying to avoid bankruptcy.