At least Bush was able to get his war on, eh?

Saddam was a brutal scumbag, but he was a secular brutal scumbag and women’s rights were one of the few bright spots of his years in power…What irony. Here we are in some kind of “war” against Islamic extremism and what do we do? We knock off one of the region’s only secular governments, leaving a vacuum that Shiite fundamentalists (AKA ‘values voters’) are only too happy to fill. The result is that now, more than $200 billion dollars and countless lives later, we have a Shiite-dominated government cozying up to Iran’s leading Mullahs. And there’s just no satisfaction in the fact that we told you so beforehand.

• Joshua Holland