President Bush pledged Monday to ensure "an outcome that will merit the sacrifice" of those who have died in Iraq, offering both sympathy and resolve as the U.S. death toll in the five-year war hit 4,000.
Really. And what might that outcome be, and have you any hope of ensuring it?
"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 at the State Department after a two-hour briefing on U.S. diplomatic strategy around the world. "I vow so long as I am president to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain."
Knee-jerk response: Too late.
Slightly more thought-out and considered response: Actually, I say "Thank God there are couragesous people willing to serve" now. But I also say, "God damn those wimpy, lip-service "patriots" who never served in a war* and are so careless with the lives of those who do."
*in fact most of whom went to some extremes to evade doing so.
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