Bachmann wants Iraqis to pay 'Several Million Dollars per Life' for every American who died in Iraq.
Before any right winger starts crying about it being a Think Progress link, skip the article and watch the clip from Meet the Press.
We invade Iraq over the objection of a significant portion of the country, while many supporters based their yes vote on the bullshit dog and pony show sold to us by the administration.
Anyone remember the silliness?
- Colin Powell shamefully making the flawed case for war before the UN (an action he now publicly regrets)?
- Condoleeza Rice's "mushroom cloud" apocalypse speech?
- Dick Cheney telling us over and over again about Saddam's magically shrinking timetable for nuclear weapons that that started at 5 years and finished up inside a year?
We invade a country that had not attacked us, posed no threat to our national security, was not training terrorists and had never even heard of al Qaeda until they turned up for our bonfire celebration circle jerk in Baghdad.
The US invasion of Iraq was, is and shall always be an atrocity. An exercise in brain dead, belligerent unilateralism. An action that resulted in the tragic deaths of thousands of US soldiers, and tens, if not HUNDREDS of thousands of Iraqi civilians.
But it's alright because hey we're America and freedom.
I didn't serve in Iraq nor did almost anyone I know. But it sticks in my craw because it was BULLSHIT from top to bottom from day one. Go ahead and say "Yeah well the surge WORKED." So did paying Sunni militia NOT TO ATTACK US.
It bothers me because Iraq is the worst thing my country has done during my lifetime if not in its history. It is indefensible, inexcusable. And it's architects should be rotting behind bars, not going on fucking book tours.
And Michele Bachmann thinks the victims of our hubris, our gigantic messianic complex, should pay for the lives we lost invading them.
Oh Holy Hell what the Mother Fuck?
I got an idea, let's bill the real culprits. Bush 43, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Doug Feith and the rest of the asshole neocon cabal who dreamed this tragic farce up.
