After two years, words start to feel hollow

Seventeen bombs set off today in Iraq. Fifty people dead, including three Americans. This in a War that the Bushies and the Conservative Media has declared victory in on at least five major occasions that I can recall--The fall of Baghdad, the "Mission Accomplished" speech, the capture of Saddam, the hand-over of soverignty, and most recently with those purple-finger elections. Yet the killing just goes on and on. And surely, when al Zarqawi is captured (which he inevitably will be) we'll go through the back-slapping all over again, and the usual suspects will assure us once again that it was all worth it, that even if the WMDs were a lie, hey, we brought 'freedum' to the Iraqi people, or at least to the ones who haven't been killed.

I'm not for a total pull-out from Iraq. Colin Powell was right; we broke it, now we own it. It would be even more irresponsible of us to simply throw that country to the wolves. I just wish that somehow, somewhere, some way the poeple who led us into this mess could be held accountable.