On May 10, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Dave Land wrote:
On the topic of the US being stretched out in Iraq, my 8-year-old son was brought to tears last night by the list of items being requested by soldiers through www.operationshoebox.com -- his school is gathering toiletries, snacks, games, and other items to send to our soldiers in Iraq. What moved him was the sad simplicity of the items being requested: plastic spoons, tooth brushes, sun screen... His heart was broken to think about the soldiers having to beg for such basic stuff.
Yes. It's disgusting. Everything about Iraq was wrong. From the beginning the hollow, pathetic justifications for an attack were wrong. The way the Bush admin went about the attack was wrong. The way democracy is being brought about is wrong -- it's just another bigger power forcing another type of government on the people, after all. The way the target was changed from bin Laden to Hussein was wrong. The way admin faces keep trying to spin the ongoing war is wrong. The way soldiers are treated is wrong. The way the grunts are taking the fall for scandals such as Abu Ghraib is wrong. The way Jessica Lynch's story got hyped, stretched and in many places outright manufactured is wrong. The fact that the perpetrators -- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and company -- are allowed to walk free -- Free! Without a hint of impeachment or prosecution! -- is wrong.
Iraq is a festering moil of filth and evil. Those who brought it about are guilty of treason. They have betrayed their nation, compromised its ability to defend itself and its standing in the world, and they don't give a shit. Not a single one of them cares, because they know they can get away with it. They already have. The apologists flock in their thousands to defend these evil men and no punishment will ever be meted on the heads that most deserve it.
Oh, "history" will tell -- big f*cking deal. How does the interpretation of someone living 100 years form now matter to the pricks responsible for this disaster *today*?
Nothing -- absolutely nothing -- about Iraq is right.
How much was right about it before GW2? Is the "average" Iraqi better off or worse off now than then? Or, for another measure, is the number of Iraqi people who are better off without SH in charge greater than the number who were better off with him and his sons and cronies in charge?
(These are not rhetorical questions. I am asking for a serious "before" and "after" comparison between the common people's lives and their potential futures.)
-- Ronn! :)
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