The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.

And so it begins… You know when I used to work for FedEx loading trucks the boxes would sometimes get stuck in the machine that pushed them into trucks. One second you would be frantically loading hundreds of boxes and the next nothing. You would look up and take one look at the mess and scream “CLUSTER FUCK TRUCK FIVE!” Cluster fucks were dangerous, the weight of the boxes stuck above you was enough to crush you to death, you had to be very careful that you didn’t let them get too big or they were impossible to fix without shutting the line down, bad news.

Iraq is the biggest cluster fuck in U.S. history. We have let so many problems pile up that it’s almost impossible to fix any of them now. If we stay we lose soldiers, and Iraqis die. If we leave we lose what little credibility we have left, and more Iraqis die. If we draw down our forces not only will a civil war fill the power vacuum but there is a good chance terror cells will take over threatening American interests and safety, and even more Iraqis die. If we increase the amount of troops, more soldiers will be in harms way, we drain our already over stretched finances and military, and more Iraqis and Americans will most likely die.

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