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Whiskey Bar: Memorial Day:

"So I'm not trying to imitate George Bush - standing up on a podium in Arlington Cemetery to deliver a few vacuous sound bites about the human lives he has so recklessly squandered. I'm not blind to the moral dubiousness of honoring the casualties of a war such as this one - a mistake, at best, and at worse a neocolonial power play gone disastrously wrong. I know some readers, especially non-U.S. ones, will jeer at our dead, and speak angrily of war criminals gone to their just rewards.

But I also believe that most Americans serving in Iraq are decent men and women who, through no fault of their own, have been thrown into a cesspool. They've been deceived and manipulated - into believing they were avenging 9/11, or that Saddam was on the verge of nuking the United States, or that they would be greeted with rose petals by the grateful natives. I believe many of them sincerely would like to help the Iraqi people, and are doing the best they can under unbelievably difficult conditions to carry out their mission. It's not their fault the mission is hopeless."