I Want A Fucking Apology

Today marks the four year anniversary of the US's illegal pre-emptive strike against Iraq. Many people commemorated it over the weekend in protests across the country.One such local protest took place at the home of Congressmen Vern Ehlers, who voted for the war. The basis for his vote? According to a letter he mailed to me it was based on an article in Esquire magazine. He responded to me, because I had opposed the war before it began, and emailed him and asked him not to vote for it. I told him there were no WMD, no links to 9/11, and no ties with alQaeda. As it turns out, I was right and he was wrong and now, I want a fucking apology!!!
This war, which was a violation of international law, was based on lies, and anyone who oppsed from the outset has had to endure insults and put-downs. We were called unpatriotic, and accused of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Well guess what, fuckwads, the war in Iraq has created more terrorists than it has impeded, so much for making the country safer, asswipes. You were wrong to support the war, and you were wrong to question my patriotism because I knew the war wouldn't go as swimmingly as we were being told, so where's my apology? I want a fucking apology.
This morning on the Free Beer and Hot Wings Show, they copped out and stated that they didn't know the war was based on lies. I'm sure if they went throughn their archives, they would find that they probably had a caller who explained to them why the was wrong, and were probably shouted down by the asswipes on that radio station who think being louder and dumber makes them right. So while they were cheering the shock and awe, Iraqi children were having the faces stitched back together (see Why We Fight) with out anesthetic because under US/UK imposed sanctions, no medical supplies were allowed to be shipped to the Iraqi people. That hurt Saddam, I'm sure. At the time, I was barely computer literate, and I was able to ascertain that Bush was lying, why weren't you media savvy people able to?
Bill O'Reilly has stated that if we went in Iraq, and they found nothing, that he would apologize to the American people. I'm an American, and I'm waiting. I want my fucking apology.
But even more than me, these media types who fed us propaganda need to apologize to the families of the 3218 soldiers who died needlessly, in a war that was not only illegally, but unnecessary as well. Not only that, these sleazeball media types also need to apologize to the families of over 650,000 Iraqi civilians who have died because Bush had a hard on for war and couldn't get it down.
We also need an apology from the Democraps, who we voted for last November on the hope that they would do something, anything to stop the madness and bring our troops back home. They won't even pass a resolution to stop Bush from attacking Iran, which, as I have repeated over and over, has yet to be found in violation of the NPT, a treaty which the US has also signed. They also have a right to nuclear power for peaceful purposes.
Here is a short rundown of some of what George Bush's war and occupation has wrought:

Nowhere on Earth is there a worse refugee crisis than in Iraq today. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, some 2 million Iraqis have fled their country and are now scattered from Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and Iran to London and Paris. (Almost none have made it to the United States, which has done nothing to address the refugee crisis it created.) Another 1.9 million are estimated to be internally displaced persons, driven from their homes and neighborhoods by the U.S. occupation and the vicious civil war it has sparked. Add those figures up – and they're getting worse by the day – and you have close to 16 percent of the Iraqi population uprooted. Add the dead to the displaced, and that figure rises to nearly one in five Iraqis. Let that sink in for a moment.

Basic foods and necessities, which even Saddam Hussein's brutal regime managed to provide, are now increasingly beyond the reach of ordinary Iraqis, thanks to soaring inflation unleashed by the occupation's destruction of the already shaky Iraqi economy, cuts to state subsidies encouraged by the International Monetary Fund and the Coalition Provisional Authority, and the disruption of the oil industry. Prices of vegetables, eggs, tea, cooking and heating oil, gasoline, and electricity have skyrocketed. Unemployment is regularly estimated at somewhere between 50-70 percent. One measure of the impact of all this has been a significant rise in child malnutrition, registered by the United Nations and other organizations. Not surprisingly, access to safe water and regular electricity remain well below pre-invasion levels, which were already disastrous after more than a decade of comprehensive sanctions against, and periodic bombing of, a country staggered by a catastrophic war with Iran in the 1980s and the First Gulf War.
I guess I'll wait for my apology, until after you apologize to the Iraqi people.