So it comes down to finally, all the Italian soldiers coming back home from Iraq. 32 of them died in action since 2003, with 7 other Italian civilians (journalists and other agents).
39 is a little figure compared to what the Iraqi people suffered (in the order of half million people killed since 2003), so it's fair to say that we are, as a nation, coming out quite unscathed by this 'mission'.

Considered how unjust this war was in the first place, based on lies and motivated by greediness and imperialism; considered how the 'peaceful' mission of the Italian army consisted basically in garrisoning the prospect of two million barrels in Nassyriha in the name not of our democratic constitution but of ENI, the Italian energy agency, it really was about time to put an end to this shame.

But the shame does not end here, obviously. It never ends. Who will now defend the Italian interests there? What sort of deal ENI is striking and with whom? Mercenaries? Foreign armies? Local mafia? Terrorist groups?
And what about the Italian constitution which states at the Article 11:

Italy repudiates war as an instrument offending the liberty of the peoples and as a means for settling international disputes; it agrees to limitations of sovereignty where they are necessary to allow for a legal system of peace and justice between nations, provided the principle of reciprocity is guaranteed.

I mean, why are we getting out of Iraq now? Because our leaders said that the war was 'wrong', because we never managed or even tried to favor a 'legal system of peace and justice' there.
And who is going to pay for the mistake? Who bypassed our boring old constitution?

I bet the politicians who voted for this war are convinced that the price has been paid already, by those 39 fellow citizens and so they're even. I wish they were wrong -- although they are right of course.