On the Fourth Anniversary...

...of the Iraq War, I feel discontent. It has been my general feeling until, well, last month, that the US should leave Iraq immediately and let them fend for themselves. It is [still] my firm belief that Iraq should be populated exclusively by Iraqis, that America should not "set up shop", seek to convert the "heathens", impress upon them any form of democracy which they do not want themselves, or occupy any area for any amount of time where a malignant purpose is the main motivation (a.k.a., OIL). I feel the war was and is based on disinformation (as revealed by the expat residing in Germany), persuasionary misinformation (as fed to us through our propagandist government seeking full support in times of ambiguity between 9/11's attacks from Afghanistan and its blurred line onto the borders of Iraq), and the harvesting of foreign Middle Eastern oil, for what other reasons would the US decide to be so benevolent to such a people whose radical sect wishes to see the entire Western world be disintegrated instead of assassinating the corrupt government of the Darfur region of Sudan?! One might say that the Iraqis were oppressed under Saddam, that they were persecuted and executed...but the American people pay so much money into African charities to feed, clothe, and school them, when the real problem resides in the Sudanese seat of government, who won't let the UN in to help. It has even been recognized that GENOCIDE (a term which has highly-restrictive context-particular implications and usage, used only in positions of lack of more comprehensible diction) has been committed in Darfur, nor in Iraq. Perhaps THIS Janjaweed ruler should be the one who is to be removed from power and not a half-decent Saddam who was executed after having made no specific brandishings of military intent toward the American people, becoming mixed up in our own oil-based agenda.