from Michael Moore:

Tomorrow marks the day that we will have been in Iraq longer than we were in all of World War II.

That’s right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it’s taken the world’s only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.

And we haven’t even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn’t even include a friggin’ helmet.

Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That’s because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to “win” the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.

The Iraq insurgency is self-funding while the Iraq government is collapsing. Lebanon veers towards civil war. And even a Republican senator is saying the US has lost.

Yet there’s still some serious incomprehension about what actually happened.

From AmericaBlog, a strong supporter of Democrats:

America is a full partner in a brutal religious and ethnic civil war. All because our president is an idiot, and 51% of our fellow Americans voted for that idiot a second time.

Lots of Democrats voted for and supported the war. It is delusional to pretend it’s all the fault of George Bush. And the precipitating event for the civil war was the invasion, based on lies, by the U.S., if it actually is a civil war.

People need to realise that the U.S. no longer controls much of anything in the Middle East.

Before the invasion, Pat Buchanan said, “this will be the end of American empire.”

That’s what we’re seeing.