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Were I to run for president (not that anyone asked).
1.) We (read Bush and his cronies) really screwed up bad by going into Iraq. I mean BAD. Terrible. (Comic salesmen in Simpson's Voice)"Worst decision ever."
2.) Admit that Iraq is broken - badly. And that like it or not - it is our collective fault. Already at war with itself - and likely to get much, much worse when we withdrawl.
3.) Pursue every avenue available to have Bush and company tried for war crimes and for crimes against humanity.
4.) Open our borders to any Iraqi who would be willing to come - subject to reasonable background checks. Provide them with 10,000.00 U.S. each at the door, to get them started in their new lives.
5.) Redeploy 500,000.00 additional troops to oversee this process. Instate the military draft to raise these numbers, biased against those demographics who underserve in the current military. Give the process 5 more years - and as much as 50 trillion dollars.
6.) Force our troops to err on the side of respecting the humanity of every Iraqi - even if it means we lose more troops in the process (like I said, we broke it - we fix it - no matter the cost). Only in this way can we hope to regain a modicum of respect both in Iraq and internationally.
7.) Prepare ourselves emotionally to live much more impoverished lives for the forseeable future as we pay for this mistake out of our collective pockets.
