Sweet irony!

Run by post - the first 2 cases I have worked on today? Divorce cases.

Take THAT sacchirine pink banner with the goey goey hearts that is vandalising the top of my screen! MUAHAHAH!

A brief rant on the Iraq disaster

Namely at one "counter-argument" supporting it. The "well, how would you fix it?" argument. This comes under the same category of "don't criticise unless you can do better" counter.

And it is utter bullshit.

We, the anti-war people (remember, the ones who were derided as cowards, traitors, terrorists, cheese-eating surrender monkeys and every over childish taunt that can be dredged up) told you it would be a disaster. We SAID it was a monumental mistake. You ignored us and made the hellhole anyway. Now you turn to us and say "well, how are you going to fix it?"

You do NOT screw something up utterly beyond measure of all cock ups (all the while we are there TELLING you that this will be an unmitigated disaster) then say we can't call you on it, expect accountability from you or even expect you to own up and say "damn, we screwed up" because the mess you made is so monumental that we can't clear it up.

It is NOT incumbent for the anti-war team to present a way to fix all this mess before we can criticise you and before we can demand heads to roll. Because, y'know what? IT'S NOT FIXABLE! There is just NO easy way to fix the disaster there and precious few hard ways. In fact, I'll go so far to say there's npot way to STOP IT GETTING WORSE. All we can do is hope we can find away where WE do not make it even more of a disaster than it already is - and that's a long shot.

Is withdrawing accepting defeat? Kind of yes - because we're not in a position to look for victory anymore. We're looking for damage reduction. The leg has gangrene and we're hoping to lop it off before it kills us.


And the same applies to the "history will judge" crew. Crap, we do not have to wait 20, 30 years in order to say that this is a disaster. the disaster is hear and now. We are not going to hold our tongues any longer until history officially declares it to be an utter balls up - because then all you screw ups who cheered for this disaster will be out of accountability range, won't you? We need answers now, judgement now and, yes, rolling heads NOW. Because the damage and the disaster is here now and the people who caused it still have the power and privilege and rewards they already had.