"Things aren't getting better," says Senator Hagel, "they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."
The neocons who sold us this bill of goods don't care about reality: they don't even recognize the validity of the concept. In his interview with ABC's This Week, Jones pinpointed his own personal tipping point:
"I went down to a Sergeant Michael Bitz's funeral, down in Camp Lejeune. Michael Bitz left a wife and three children, twins that he never saw. He was killed at Nasiriya.
"And when she attended the funeral, I remember vividly – I can see it right now in my mind – the situation, when she read the last letter she received from him – he left a wife and three children, twins he never saw, that were born two months after he was deployed – and that really has been on my mind and my heart ever since. That's two years ago."
This account of a directionless Bitz, who found a purpose when he joined the Marines and turned his life around, hints at the larger tragedy that Jones has glimpsed, and the enormity of our folly in Iraq. Moreover, it diveted resources from the hunt for the real enemies of the USA.
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