Mourning Iraq

Yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the War in Iraq, a war which Donald Rumsfeld once estimated may last for six days; indeed, on May 1, 2003 the president himself declared that the war was effectively over and won.

I guess the citizens of an occupied sovereign nation insurgents didn't get the memo.

Since we invaded Iraq, approximately 4,000 American soldiers have died needlessly, violently, tragically, as a result; estimates of the number of Iraqis killed since the beginning of the invasion vary from the appalling to the grotesque.

Yesterday, a reporter had the temerity to point out to Darth President Cheney that two-thirds of American people believe that the war is not worth fighting. Cheney's response was precisely one word in length:

"So?"

Watch it for yourself:



The traditional fifth year anniversary gift is wood. It seems a fitting material.