Four years after...

Exactly four years ago, Bush ordered his bombers to bomb the shit out of Baghdad to prepare the situation to put American boots on the ground. The Iraqi military, which was supposed to be such an imminent threat to the peace and security of American empire, vanished like butter in the springtime sun. Even the redoubtable Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezar brigades were nowhere to be seen to defend the Iraqi capital against the Marines, the 101st Airborne and the 3rd Infantry. Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled and a new era was about to begin.

Democracy, peace and understanding, prosperity...? Heaven on earth, thanks to the Yankees?

No, Baghdad and Iraq were about to start their descend into Hell. A Hell stoked to steak-well-done status in Washington and London. (The Independent: Iraq: A country drenched in blood) The dispatches of Patrick Cockburn, reporting from Iraq, are filled with words such as: “full of fear”, “half-suppressed panic”, “violent death”, “pools of drying blood”, “tortured to death”, “millions fleeing”, “the slaughter house the country has become”, “ever-escalating violence”, “worse than ever”, “ferocious battle”, “too dangerous to do”, “heavily armed Sunni and Shia fortresses”, “the failure of the occupation”. Those are the words that describe the fake liberty and democracy the U.S. has brought to Iraq.

“Mission accomplished”, crowed Bush on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Four years later, more than 3,000 American and 650,000 Iraqi deaths later, and more than several troop surges later, Bush's mission will never be accomplished. He is still sticking to his guns, leading the U.S. to total and ignominious defeat. Iraq is a hell, breading fanatics, resistance fighters or terrorists or whatever you care to call them, people who lost all hope except to inflict the most possible damage on the U.S., the source of their misery.

Bush's invasion of Iraq will come to hound America. And still, Bush is not impeached and they still call the U.S. system a democracy. Is there no justice in this world? When will Bush the “tyrant be held to account for his crimes by his own people”, in the same words Bush talked about Saddam?