Shock & Awe, Mission Accomplished and Still Living With War

Ah yes. So how's that "Shock & Awe", "Mission Accomplished", "Close Guantanamo" thing working out for you lately?

As Neil Young has stated: "History is a cruel judge of overconfidence."

It's now been 11 years since the days of "Shock & Awe" and "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq.

And. We're. Still. Living. With. War.

So just as Neil Young was right about the Vietnam War being wrong, so he was again by warning of the consequences of reckless war in Iraq.

So how about it doubters? Ready to admit that Neil Young has been right all along? That exactly what many of us predicted so long ago and been repeatedly vindicated as correct?

Back in the days of shock and awe
We came to liberate them all
History was the cruel judge of overconfidence

Back in the days of shock and awe
Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
Our chief was landing on the deck
The sun was setting on a golden photo op

Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
Thousands of bodies in the ground
Brought home in a boxes to a trumpet's sound
No one sees them coming home that

"Don't feel like satan, but I am to them.
So I try forget them any way I can."
~~Neil Young



"There's one more kid that will never go to school
Never get to fall in love, never get to be cool."
Photo by Chris Hondros - NYTimes.com
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