He embarked on a war of conquest of a foreign country for the benefit of oil companies. He thought it would be easy. Now he is on TV - a confused man. He acts hurt. He says he is doing all he can to protect American kids. But he can’t protect them. He screwed up early by sending them there at all. Iraq was not a threat to us or any neighboring country. Every country bordering Iraq was against the war. We went there for easy pickins.

We did half the right thing in Afghanistan. Those of us against the war in Iraq did support our action in Afghanistan. We struck back at the Taliban who had harbored Osama who had attacked us. But there is no oil there and so we went where the oil was. Afghanistan is an unfinished job. But we haven’t the troops or focus to finish up there.

Rummy and Gen Meyers can spout all the tough words they want. The Iraqis who attack American forces are doing it in their own country. Remember that old joke - why did it take five boy scouts to help the old lady across the street? Because she didn’t want to go. The quagmire will get worse. Now we hear that we have the mission of bringing democracy to the rest of the world. When did we Americans decide that? I thought we were an example to the world. This is a repeat of the wars to spread religion - Christianity or Islam.

We were never threatened by Iraq or Saddam. There are worse tyrants in the world than Saddam who we cuddle up to. We really only want the oil. And we want to show other countries that we can conquer any country we choose. We want to improve our bullying ability. And that is not the America that I want.