At 11:05 AM -0400 7/29/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Have you added up all the Iraqi civilians killed by various
factions of Iraqi and non-Iraqi terrorists and compared the number
to that of Iraqi civilians killed by US and other foreign troops
who invaded and have occupied Iraq and by economic sanctions before
the invasion and occupation?
Americans who vote for John Kerry who will be the next POTUS, aka
the biggest terrorist and war criminal, have no moral standing to
pretend to be appalled by un-American terrorists.
Only those who do not vote for Kerry or Bush have the moral
standing to criticize foreign terrorists.
What a load of crap. Elections are about contesting for power, and
often involve debased compromises; votes aren't symptoms of moral
purity.
And why is it impossible to hold two thoughts in mind at once? The
sanctions were murderous and the war a horrible crime. There's no
doubt that the U.S. and its very junior partners have killed far
more Iraqi civilians than the "resistance." But there are some
people on the western left - some of them members of PEN-L, even -
who can't acknowledge that a lot of the Iraqi "resistance" consists
of jihadists and unreconstructed Saddamites, i.e., absolutely awful
forces.
As Christian Parenti said when he returned from his first trip to
Iraq - there's no way anything good can come of this.
Doug
You have no moral right to be acting superior to terrorists, since
you intend to vote for one.
--
Yoshie
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