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"Ethic" |
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18 Dec 2003 05:48:38 PM |
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Send Special Forces to the Oval Office Now |
17 December 2003 By Mark Morford, San Francisco Gate Columnist
Saddam, So Not Worth It
Dubya, now that you've got your dime-store thug,
can you stop the warmongering and death ?
Well gosh golly it took only upward of 500 dead U.S. soldiers (and
counting) and more than 2,500 U.S. wounded (and counting) and more
than 0,000 dead innocent Iraqi citizens (and counting) and countless
tens of thousands of hapless dead Iraqi soldiers (and counting).
And it'll only cost U.S. taxpayers at least a staggering $ 350 billion
along with the complete gutting of our foreign policy and our national
treasury and the appalling blood sacrifice of our national pride and
our international status and global sense of self-respect.
Oh, and the truth is, it turns out Saddam actually did have some old
stashes of weaponry, a bit of rusty, small-scale WMDs, after all --
because we sold them to him, 20 years ago.
But they were never any sort of direct danger to America - or anyone
else, for that matter -- and regardless all evidence points to the fact
that the stash was completely destroyed more than a decade ago.
Remember that time ? Right about when the US hushed up all those
sales of biological weapons and computer technology to Iraq ?
Right about when all those American corporations, from Bechtel to
Kodak to AT&T, from Dow Chemical to Hewlett-Packard to IBM
and at least 100 more, decided it might be best to begin shredding
their records detailing all their Iraq business deals ?
Hey, why is Donny Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam and smiling in
this photo ? Shhh. ( http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82 )
And now, long after his political usefulness to us has expired, we up
and invade his unhappy nation and lay waste to the entire region for
no justifiable reason, and we inflate his global stature into this massive
inhuman Hitler-esque monster when in fact he was really just an old,
tired, small-time thug, and now finally Saddam Hussein, the brutal
pip-squeak dictator/former beloved US ally who had nothing
whatsoever to do with 9/11, has been captured alive.
Yay yay go team.
It was a proud moment in American history. Almost as proud as when
Dubya secretly flew to Iraq a few weeks back to spend 2.5 hours
pretending to serve a fake, inedible plastic turkey to that handful of
carefully selected, prescreened soldiers for that Thanksgiving PR stunt
that will forever embarrass anyone with any sense of decency and pride
- which is, according to Bush's instant surge in the polls after the photo
op,
fewer and fewer of us.
As if this changes a single thing. As if Saddam's capture suddenly means
BushCo is some sort of nimble or subtly intelligent leader, and that
nine months of brutal ongoing gut-busting war was all worth it.
As if we are safer from terrorism. As if we are safer from Karl Rove
and John Ashcroft. As if the nation can now stand proud.
Think again.
Even Bush himself is not quite so stupid as to go that far.
Note how just after Saddam's capture, his army of handlers rushed in to
make sure Americans don't expect any lessening of US casualties in Iraq,
no slowdown in the number of dead American soldiers or the killing of
innocent Iraqis who just happen to be trying to get some clean water or
a gallon of fuel when US forces blow another building apart while they're
looking for guerrilla insurgents.
Oh yes, Saddam needed to be captured. Oh yes, his capture is a swell
thing for the world. Oh yes, Bush desperately needed the ratings boost.
But we as a nation have been utterly pulverized with the lie that this
war was the only way. We have been slammed for more than two years
with relentless hammer of fear and inflated terrorist threats and bogus
Orange Alerts, until we all just give in and our resistance crumbles
and we say, fine.
Fine, just get it over with, Dubya, go slaughter yet another nearly
defenseless nation and catch your impotent bad guy and eviscerate
your own country's economy and embarrass us the world over and
protect your oil cronies and your military portfolio. Get it over with.
By the way, from Bush Sr. forward (and, yes, that includes Clinton),
the US has to date killed far, far more Iraqi civilians than Saddam
ever could.
Along with the United Kingdom, we've been bombing Iraq almost
nonstop for the past decade.
Not to mention the more than half a million Iraqi children who've died
from lack of medicine or decent health care since the brutal, US-backed
UN sanctions were imposed 12 years ago. Shhh.
The capture does not justify the savagery, nor the humiliation. Not by
a long shot. The ends do not justify the means. Nor do they justify the
staggering, steaming pile of BushCo lies about why we went to war in
the first place.
Remember those ?
Remember how not one single motive BushCo gave for launching this
insane war has actually been proven true ?
Does this even matter anymore, the string of falsehoods and treasonous
fabrications ?
Apparently not. This is America's biggest wonder, and its ugliest flaw :
a nasty short-term memory.
But whatever. Most lockstep Americans do not care that Saddam was
never a threat. Most do not care about how many Iraqi children have
died, or that in just the first days of the war, US forces killed far more
innocent civilians than were killed by those non-Iraqi terrorists in
the WTC (4,300, to be more specific).
Most do not care that the other 25 despotic heads of state out there
right now who are far worse than Saddam are not, apparently, quaking
in their dictatorial
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More :
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford
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| User: "Tom Aldrich" |
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18 Dec 2003 07:13:40 PM |
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Most do not care that the other 25 despotic heads of state out there
right now who are far worse than Saddam are not, apparently, quaking
in their dictatorial
And if we were to unseat those dictators, you'll scream the same crap your
posting now
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More :
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford
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