I heard a really sickening story on NPR the other day. Can’t get it out of my mind. It was about “honor killings” in Iraq, where, if a woman is raped, or even *suspected* of having been raped, the men in her family can murder her, with no repercussions. To maintain their “honor.”

Here’s a link to the story: Concern Grows over Iraqi ‘Honor Killings’.

Is this what we’re fighting for in Iraq? These people whose values are so alien from our own? What on Earth could have possessed Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Feith, et al, to think that starting a war there was a good idea?

No matter when we pull our troops out, I think it will end up as a civil war, with Iran helping the more conservative elements take control. For this, we sacrificed thousands of American and other troops, not to mention the tens of thousands of Iraqis who were killed or traumatized by what we have done to their country. It’s just disgusting, the entire thing.