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By Creature

WaPo: As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates

In the up is down, right is wrong, unreality the Bush administration and their enablers inhabit the Washington Post article linked to above will undoubtedly be used as clear and convincing evidence that the Iraq war escalation must continue. If we leave, Baghdad will be Basra.

While it is probably true, it's still no reason to stay.

If anything the article is a wake-up call to get out, and get now, while the military still has a say in what an American withdrawal will look like. As Taylor Marsh says: "No matter what we do or when we do it, the Iraqis have plans of their own on what will happen once we're gone."

This dirty fuckin' hippie says, let them get on with their plans. It will be ugly, but it is also inevitable.

(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)