Bush's Crocodile Tears

"'One day people will look back at this moment in history and say 'thank God there were courageous people willing to serve' because they laid the foundation for peace for generations to come,' Bush said after a roadside bomb killed four U.S. soldiers, pushing the toll to the new milestone."

Does this strike anyone else as macabre? The man who sent 4,000 young men and women to their deaths, wasting half a billion taxpayer dollars in the process over five gristly years, still insists we consider his action morally justified and praiseworthy. What could he possibly think we 're achieving in Iraq?

Is the war benefiting the Iraqi people? The current cost of the war works out to almost $20,000 per Iraqi citizen. If we were truly concerned about the Iraqi people, surely that $20,000 per person could be put to much better use than violently seizing control of their country. And if we're concerned about our own citizens - is there any evidence the war is protecting us in any measurable way? Bush's blithe confidence in the war is at best insincere, at worst delusional. Either way, I strongly feel people will "look back at this moment in history" in a much different light.