And another thing,

You know the stupidest thing about this war is there's literally no one to root for. If you're still deluding yourself that the war in Iraq was initiated for anything other than the interest of political points and payback to camapign supporters, you're crazy. Certainly all the rhetoric about "freeing the Iraqis" and "spreading democracy" came pretty late in the game, long after everything else didn't pan out. While I have a lot of sympathy for our troops, I simply cannot root for the Bush administration, its ideologues, and corporate cronies. BOOOO! You get the gas face!

On the other hand, this whole "let's make Iraq a fundamentalist theocracy" movement can also go fuck itself. My understanding is that Iraq was a largely secular nation, where women were far more equal to men than in the neighboring theocracies. The rise of theocrats in Iraq is largely, it has been argued, a consequence of 12 years of sanctions. You keep reading stories from across the country of men forcing women to wear the veil etc; this is just obnoxious. So BOOOO! You get the gas face too, theocrats!