Iraq War = Disaster

A post on the blog titled Iraqi Letter to America (hat tip to The Poor Man):

Tarnishing Good Names
Prime Minister Tony Blair, following the disclosure of more prisoner-abuse photos:

"I hope we do not allow [our disgust at the photographs] to tarnish the good name of the British armed forces."

No sir! Of course not! We will not allow any of these minor incidents by groups of few bad apples tarnish the good names of the British armed forces, the US armed forces, the British and US intelligence communities, the good offices of army planners or the good offices of US political leadership. No sir!

Nor these acts by other groups of bad apples:
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Read the whole thing.

I've always maintained that the War on Iraq was a bad idea regardless of the (supposed) good intentions of the American Government. War can never be the right choice, it must only be chosen when no other reasonable option is available and there were plenty of other options available in terms of Iraq.

What a complete and utter disaster.