I mentioned this column to Blicktx.
There was a period of time where expressing doubt about the rightness of being in Iraq was almost patriotic blasphemy. Our country went through a few years of odd self-censorship, when the notion of war heroism stifled reason. It was a time when I couldn't say of the soldiers that I had no doubt that they would defend our right to vote or to speak freely, but that isn't why they were sent to Iraq.
Leonard Pitts wrote what I have felt for a long time about the Iraq War, but so much more eloquently than I could have.
http://www.freep.com/article/20111028/OPINION05/110280303/Leonard-Pitts-Jr-Mixed-emotions-U-S-exits-Iraq
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