Making Apologies: Faced with pictures like this, I’m not sure what to say:

One correspondent, however, offers an apology of his own:

Dear Iraqis,

Please accept our apologies for liberating you from a murderous tyrant who gassed civilians, systematically starved his own people, started and lost two wars with neighbors, and became a pariah in the world community.

As a token of our regret, please accept these Baathist thugs and Islamic fundamentalists from Iran and Jordan.

We’re so sorry that, if you must know, we’re packing up and going home, so France and Germany (who your deposed leader successfully bribed) will cease to be mad at us.

Good luck building a democracy without anyone’s help!

Sincerely,

People of the United States