It's also superfucked because, while ousting the brutality and creating the disorder, we also bombed the hell out of their infrastructure. Which was rather inevitable if you accept the premise that we should be in there bombing for regime change. But civilization is really hard to do without water, electricity, roads, and schools, and we promised them a Marshall Plan. I heard McCain say this week that the U.S. has enough financial problems, that we need to make the Iraqis pay for their own reconstruction. I can't disagree with the premise, but given our previous promises combined with how much we've destroyed their civilization in the name of helping them, the conclusion is really unethical.

I don't consider myself a democrat or a republican, but I'm voting for Obama because I believe that the people holding the two highest offices in our land should be people I wouldn't snub at a party because I don't approve of their ethics.