[rextorres]

Hrrr. . . I was going to joke about diagraming my irony, but I didn't. I suppose the joke was on me.

Here goes:

"It's ironic that the only reason for the war - it turns out - has been nation building. The cynical me thinks why were the Republicans so opposed to it almost 2 years ago?"

The irony here is that Shrub ran AGAINST nation building. Now he is nation building. It's arguable that this is situational irony. I was trying to be poetic.

Asking "Are we there for the Antiquities?" Is ironic because I am asking a question that I know to be false to point out Losers' rediculous statement. Obviously we are not there for the antiquities, but the only reason Iraq is strategic is because of the oil.

From Websters:

"a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning - called also Socratic Irony."

I guess I wasn't adroit, but again arguably I was being Ironic (at least according to webster).