KCStar: There's a way to ease the shame arising from the Iraq debacle

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/columnists/8512573.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

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I'm ashamed of believing that Saddam Hussein was worth the price of this thing we're now caught up in.

And ashamed of my credulity in believing the false reasons given for undertaking it.

I'm ashamed of the suffering our mistakes have cost, and of the way in which we have so cavalierly alienated our friends and allies in the world.

I'm ashamed of having accepted, so willingly, the illusions about how this operation would end, when it is now clear the architects of it themselves had no understanding of the difficulty and no sensible plan.

All this is hindsight now. There's no remedy for the regret. Except as a guide for the future, regret is useless. There's but one constructive thing left to do, and I will do it again when the opportunity presents itself.

I will vote.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Saddam was a $500 ice cream cone.

You like ice cream? Me too! Hey, who doesn't like ice cream? Wow, something we all can agree on!

What if that yummy ice cream cone was $500? Not so yummy now, huh?

Getting Saddam was a good goal to have... valiant and moral even. But at what cost?

$200 Billion (so far)
700 US lives (so far)
Most of our allies
US credibility
Increased hatred from the Arab world & terrorism
Civil war in Iraq (coming to a TV near you)


Who ever did the cost/benefit analysis had their head so far up their ass they could see daylight again. Oh that's right - WE pay the costs and the military-industrial-oil complex gets the benefits... never mind!

[FloridaPat]

2. Too little too late.