"Why This War is So Despicable"

A soldier's view from Iraq (excerpt):

"But, in the end, being lied to is not really what makes me so mad. What really gets my goat, so to speak, is the fact that we haven't done much good here. No matter what the justifications for war, you would think that we'd be capable of making Iraq better than it was when people didn't always have food and Joseph's father could get dipped in acid. But, aside from the acid, we haven't done much of a job on that one at all. An Iraqi child is more likely to die of hunger now than before the invasion. Street violence is up; if most of the torture chambers have disapeared, the hole they left has at least partially been filled by IEDs and suicide bombers. Electricity and oil production still have as yet to reach pre-war levels. Iraq is not better of now than it was then, and that is an embarrasment. We made a huge friggin mess, and now we haven't done shit to clean it up. That, my friends, reflects very poorly on America as a whole. Of course, when I say "we" I'm not refering to you and me, I'm refering to the American people as a whole who, led by a lying administration, supported the invasion in the first place. Now that we're here, it is disgusting that Bush and the rest of the supporters of his war, haven't done more to rebuild Iraq."