"Requiem for a Dream"

Spencer Ackerman, guest-blogging for Josh Marshall, points us in the direction of long piece in the WaPost, which Ackerman calls, "Requiem for a War."

There are certainly some gems to be found in the report on the state of Iraq, just a couple of weeks before the hand-over of "sovereignty" to the Iraqis. Here's a personal fave:

In an interview last week, Bremer maintained that "Iraq has been fundamentally changed for the better" by the occupation. The CPA, he said, has put Iraq on a path toward a democratic government and an open economy after more than three decades of a brutal socialist dictatorship. Among his biggest accomplishments, he said, were the lowering of Iraq's tax rate, the liberalization of foreign-investment laws and the reduction of import duties. [emphasis added]

I'm sure the families of the 840 U.S. soldiers killed thus far in Iraq, will be thrilled to know their lives were not lost in vain. They died, so that Iraqis could pay less in taxes and Royal Dutch Shell can operate more profitably there.

I think I'm going to be sick now.