Ongoing Iraqi Violence Almost Makes American Invasion Seem Pointless

[Devil_Fish]

Approximately 83 percent of Americans surveyed said recent incidents such as a car bomb explosion that killed 40 in the city of Kut, the executions of seven worshippers outside a mosque in Youssifiyah, and a series of other attacks that have left scores of Iraqis dead and wounded were the kinds of events that, if they didn't know better, might make them think the lengthy occupation really wasn't worth it in the slightest.

Forty-three percent of Americans said if someone wanted to, they could very nearly make the assessment, based on current conditions on the ground, that perhaps the United States wasted valuable resources on an unwinnable, nearly impossible endeavor.

(snip)

A majority of Americans also agreed that the spate of roadside bombs, suicide attacks, and ethnic murders might—and this is just an opinion, they claimed, which may or may not actually hold water—cause one to deduce that the federal government had sacrificed 4,500 troops, not to mention more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians, in a campaign that ultimately, perhaps, proved ruinous for both nations.

More: http://www.theonion.com/articles/ongoing-iraqi-violence-almost-makes-american-invas,21238/ (Sad when the onion hits it on the head, isn't it?)

[DCBob]

1. Other than getting rid of Saddam it was pointless.

Incredible waste of time, effort, blood, and money.. its sickening.

[patrice]

2. Right up there in the 10 worst things to ever happen to the U.S.A., not to mention poor Iraq.

The sadness and anger for our own and shame for the pain and sorrow we have caused the innocent people of Iraq, all of that is quite a frustrating and bitter experience.

This country will never be the same.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. This is the first time I ever read through the entire post

without realizing it was an Onion post.

(sigh)

[Devil_Fish]

4. The rest of the piece on the onion is as spot on as these select paragraphs.

It is truly sad that the onion tells the truth that the rest of the MSM won't touch with a 10' pole.