Well, what else can you expect from Juan McCain’s boyfriend?
In the first place, this “war” was totally illegal.
In the second place, it was completely against our national interest, and that of Western Civilization.
In the third place, he didn’t even bother to ask congress about it—unlike George Bush, who got their consent for Iraq, altough they pretended he hadn’t.
In the fourth place, it was not even clear who was running it, since Obama shuffled it off on NATO or the UN or something, it’s not clear exactly what.
And finally, as several have already noted, the Republicans have hardly uttered a squeak. Boehner wrote Obama a letter, which as far as I know was never published, and that was it.
I think it is an absolute shame that we have spent the blood of our young and our national treasure trying to build “democracy” in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the pretexts used by Bush were legitimate, as opposed to the bogus pretexts used by Clinton in Bosnia/Serbia/Kosovo and Obama in Libya and Uganda. If we were indeed fighting for an end to despotism we would long ago have gone after Castro, Assad, Khameni, Chavez, Kim Jong Il, and Mugabe. How hard would it be or would it have been to end any or all of these regimes? Would the price to pay have been as much as we have squandered in Iraq and Afghanistan? It seems that all we have to do lately to justify intervention is mention civilian deaths. If that is the case there are a lot of places we could do much more good than we have done recently.