Reply #27: Not, Ma'am, In the Sense You Seem To Be Stating

[The Magistrate]

Your drift here seems to be that the United States is committing genocide in Iraq. It is not. A number of Iraqi factions are taking advantage of conditions following the defeat of Hussein to kill on their own, in furtherance of their own goals, and the people doing that are responsible for what they are doing: no one else is. Even if the opportunity they are grasping was created by another, they are still responsible for the grasp they have taken of it.

That civil war was a reasonable expectation following the destruction of the Hussein regime is certainly true, and many, myself included, pointed this out in the run-up to the invasion, as one of many reasons it was a disasterous course for our nation to embark on. Our country is, and unfortunately remains, in the hands of people who operate under a degree of delusion about the utility of force, and who are prone to commit the always disasterous error of believing their own propagandas.