We must continue to feed the meat grinder because we are grinding meat

Attaturk at Rising Hegemon on the administration's case for perpetuating the occupation of Vietnam-Iraq:

... this argument couldn't be made, just like Vietnam, if the original fuck up based on deception hadn't been made in the first place. The argument of we cannot end this fuck up because we fucked it up and the only way to minimize the fuck up is by telling America troops, "you're fucked" is not exactly the strongest argument ever made.