The war in Iraq is the brainchild of a man that takes pride in the fact that he isn't intellectual.
An intellectual is one that is "learned".
A near-perfect antonym for "learned" is "moronic".
People consider you "learned" if you are intelligent.
If you are intelligent you avoid doing stupid things.
Therefore taking pride in not being intellectual is equivalent to pride in doing stupid things.
The president has much to be proud of in that regard, and Iraq no doubt provides a magnificent outlet for his pride.
However, for those of us that don't enjoy seeing the treasury draining, our children shot at, our enemies strengthening, our allies pulling back, nuclear weapons proliferating, and Osama still free, Iraq provides an outlet not for pride but outrage.
The president is an ignorant man. He brags about it. He's proud of his poor judgment and so we should feel merciful towards him. If you believe in fate then you believe he is not a moronic man because he chooses to be moronic, but rather he made the choices he did because he is moronic. If you believe instead that he chose to be moronic of his own free will, then you must also believe that he wants to be moronic, which of course means that he is moronic.
So, he deserves our pity and our mercy, but that does not excuse our duty to oppose him because moronic people make harmful choices and harmful choices are stupid. Another way to think of a stupid person is unintentionally evil. Only intentionally harmful people are evil and they too should receive mercy for the same reasons stated above.
Anyhow we have a duty to stop this harmful behavior of our proudly moronic president before he proudly gets us all harmed with his stupid choices. To that end I suggest another rationale for ending the war and it is this...
President Bush insists he is omnipotent and infallible in time of war, and right to use torture and correct to spy on Americans. So, ending the war pulls the rug out from that argument and there would be no pretense for a presidential potentate to obfuscate, obstruct, omit, and overreach.
Of course one might also argue that an Authorization to Use Force is not a Declaration of War and that we are not legally "at war", but with Republicons holding virtue hostage to monied interests, it is best to use decisive counter-argument.
Stop the war.
Stop the domestic spying.
Stop the war.
Open Guantanamo to our Justice system.
Stop the war.
Stop the flight-deck bravado.
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