Dump AT&T!

This month, nearly all U.S. troops in Iraq will come home — except, of course, for the 4,500 who died there.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney launched the Iraq war in March 2003 based on lies and misinformation. Soon it turned into a brutal occupation. Besides the 4,500 troops killed, more than 30,000 Americans were wounded, and at least 100,000 Iraqis were killed, most of them civilians.

The war cost us more than $1 trillion, while the cost to our international relations and our own democracy is immeasurable. Think of the words that Bush and Cheney have added to our lexicon:Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, extraordinary rendition, Blackwater, WMD, Halliburton, waterboarding and more.

Bush and Cheney now boast about their misdeeds in this misbegotten war. They ought to be considered war criminals. But don’t tell that to AT&T. That’s the phone company that supported the Bush campaign in 2000 — and then, after Bush-Cheney launched the Iraq war, helped fund their reelection in 2004.