Who cares about Iraq? Posted by Ilan Goldenberg

I was seething after reading Dana Goldstein's piece about how Iraq won't matter in this election cycle.  Fortunately, I found Ezra Klein's post and it made me feel much better.  I will have much more to say on this over the holidays, but I think it would be the height of stupidity for Dems to deemphasize foreign policy and national security in the next election.   If the economy keeps going the way it is, then it might be more important than Iraq by November 2008.  But contrary to our desperate attempts to explain elections as being about one thing, they never are.   Elections are about many things and to think that somehow Iraq won't play an important role is absurd.  It still polls as most important or second most important everywhere I've seen, and Dems have such an advantage on Iraq that it would be folly not to make it a central part of the campaign.

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AS Moira Whelan has written in an earlier post the Republicans have written off Iraq as a security issue now the Democrats and the mainstream media are following their example. I wish that the Democrats and the progressive community would ignore the pundits.

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Who Cares About Iraq?
I have followed the illegal and horrific occupation of Iraq from the very start of the war. I am daily more and more confused as to how we Americans can postulate endlessly on the questions of Iraqi goverance and war stradegy, when we invaded a soverign country illegally and are directly responsible for tens of thousands of innocent deaths, the destruction of billions of dollars of infrastructure and the wholesale thief of countless billions in national treasures, yet to be sufficently investigated by anyone.

Criminal conduct by our US government regardless of the party in the White House does not justify these War Crimes that regardless of the US Media blackout will someday come back to our collective door step. It is like nothing I have seen in my 50-year lifetime were all of human morality and dignity all of a sudden has been thrown off to wonder on it's own. Nobody in power or the elite seem to now hide their collective distain for the lives they are taking at the chance to fill their coffers with anothers resources: all in the pretence that there is a war on terror.

I can see this moral rot taking a very dangerous toll on American and European societies in the long run, because everyone sees that it is OK to kill in large numbers as long as their is a cover of sufficient deniability and the rule of law can be put into question by a unrelated event like 9/11.

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