Anyone who had given it even the slightest bit of thought must have known that all these horrible things would happen. So why is it that even the "liberal" party in our country widely supported the invasion? I am so dissappointed with the Democrats these days.

Who started it, or who agreed with it, is completely irrelevant at this point in time. What *is* important that this horrendousness needs to stop. The article referenced was new to me, but the information therein is not. It's inhuman, what we're doing in the so-called name of freedom and liberation.

What I fail to understand is why so many Americans still support this travesty. If anything, what we're doing now in Iraq is only going to increase the numbers of people who want to use mass murder as a way to get back at us. If that happens, like 9/11 or worse, I can tell you almost definitively that the majority of this country will not see it as something that was due because of our inhumane treatment and subjugation of Iraqis, they will want to strike back with equal measure.

All of this leads to an incredibly sad and costly vicious cycle. It affects and saddens me so deeply, I have no words.

Alena,
What I fail to understand is why so many Americans still support this travesty.

Willfull ignorance.

Yes, indeed. Perverse impressiveness is what the Bush administration is all about. Will we ever really know just how truly, deeply, and sincerely the big players in this war (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell) and all the little players (the Senators and Congressmen who keep signing the checks) believed in the pre-war intelligence? Fuck no. As the joke goes, there will be much hand-wringing about the finger-pointing. As in any divorce, even a divorce from reality, there will be bitter mutual recriminations. But for now, the dance cards are full for the Inaugural Balls. Ghastly, isn't it.