Today marks the 5th anniversary of the War in Iraq. Funny how now it can be called a war when at first it was carefully couched in other terms so as to not invoke any Constitutional challenge. Yet with very few exceptions in Washington, we were propelled by misplaced jingoism into a war bolstered by arguments that have now been shown definitively to be patently false.Reasons that to me were never enough justification for what I knew in my heart was ahead. And every day, for every life lost, I mourn. For every smug utterance of continued justification, I'm incredulous.
Blaise Pascal wrote:
"It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe."
My inner voice told me not to believe. And if only our lawmakers had taken a little time out to listen to their own, this is one anniversary that might not ever have happened.
- Farmer Ted
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