Money and lives have been invested in making Iraq a platform from which the U.S. can project power; a move that requires not the liberation of Iraq, but its subordination, says ROBERT JENSEN. But most Iraqis don’t want to be subordinated, which is why the U.S. in some sense lost the war on the day of invasion, he adds.

Neither the Republicans nor the mainstream Democrats in the U.S.’ political system seem capable of admitting that the invasion of Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, terrorist ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, or creating democracy, comments ROBERT JENSEN.