I vehemently disagree with the notion that we are “beyond whether or not we should be there.” I hate to throw out the Vietnam card this early in the diatribe, but there it is. We were sold a bill of goods on this war that has turned out to be blatantly false. No, Iraq did not have WMDs. Yes there are terrorists living there that are tangentially connected to 9/11, but you can throw a dart in that area of the map and say the same thing about wherever it lands. Yes the Iraqi people were living under the rule of a lunatic. Same dart, same map, same result.

So why Iraq, and why now? I would love to buy into the “blood for oil” conspiracy theory, but at 3 bucks a gallon that doesn’t hold much water. The truth of the matter is that this war was almost completely arbitrary. If we want to give up on the notion that America acts differently than other nations let’s just make Iraq a state, add another star on to the flag and be done with it. But if we still believe that America is better than that, we need to act like it.

Also, she’s demanding that the President meet with her. He’s already done that once, and I very much doubt his answer to her is going to be any different from the first time she met him.