For Rebekah:
Faithful preachin' don't pay reader Rebekeh commented on the link I posted about the ridiculous number of Iraqi's killed in the war. She asked me to read this.
Here's the low down- A bunch of liberal hacks from Johns Hopkins claim 650000 Iraqi civilians have died since the war began. A bunch of conservative hacks from the Wall Street Journal (predictably) wrote an article about how the liberal hacks are stupid because they aren't conservative hacks.
Look, I don't care. The point is that a shitload of innocent Iraqi's have died. Does the number really matter? Even President Bush estimates the number to be 30,000. 30,000! Just think about it.
And what are our excuses....I mean justifications....I mean.........reasons for the war?
1) WMD
What about North Korea and Iran?
2) Saddam is bad
What about the dudes from North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Columbia....
3) Saddam killed his own people
What about Darfur?
4) Oil (this is the liberal hack favorite)
I'm not buying it. Iraq doesn't export much oil.
5) War on Terror.
Give me a break. That's like saying we need to fight a war in Spain to fight the war on Taco Bell.
Have I missed something?
Honestly, honestly, honestly, I can't think of any good reason for the Iraqi war. I really can't. It's pointless.
I've written about this topic before. Read more here.
Life is simple when we can make clean distinctions between good and evil. We're good, especially when compared to the bad. And to prove how good we are, we demonstrate our power, our wrath. This is the Iraq war, in a nutshell. Don't fuck with us. We're America. We're the good guys. We have the biggest guns. Saddam dared play coy with the President of the United States, Bush 43.
It makes me sad.
1 comment:
I'm just commenting galore today (and avoiding work). If anything invading Iraq was a horrible idea because Saddam's government was Sunni and keeping Iran, Syria, and every other Middle Eastern Muslim nation's Shiite governments in check. As long as they focused on hating each other they had less time to become allies and work toward the destruction of the ultimate "hated": the US and Israel. I don't know why more people aren't talking about this, but Iraq was perhaps the worst country to invade ever. Like you, I don't buy the rest of the excuses, except maybe oil. How about good old-fashioned material greed and quest for power?
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