{"id":660,"date":"2010-08-19T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/08\/the-war-is-over.html"},"modified":"2010-08-19T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T11:19:38","slug":"the-war-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/08\/the-war-is-over.html","title":{"rendered":"The “War is Over”"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

Well well well – our “combat troops” have been removed from
\nIraq and the war is over.  <\/span><\/p>\n

50,000 “advisers’? 
\n<\/span>Give me a break.  They exist to prop up the government; essentially like a Roman garrison.  <\/p>\n

The war will  be over when we have as many troops in Iraq as we did the day before we started it: none except for maybe a few guards at our embassy. Sort of like Canada’s military presence over here.<\/p>\n

On this issue the Dixie Chicks speak for me<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Increasingly I think the US resembles an intergalactic experiment to see just how much willful ignorance at the popular level and utter incompetence at more influential ones can be injected into a society before it collapses. Apparently quite a lot, and the experiment appears to still be under way.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b><\/p>\n

And Halliburton gets its reward<\/a> – the genuine Mission is REALLY accomplished.<\/p>\n

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