Message 32/96
Date: 07-May-03 @ 05:37 PM -
RE: So, where's the crispy children...
There's some points for leftists to consider. Don Rumsfield wants to shrink the size of the US military... the administration tied the hands of Isreal AND the Turks during the Iraqi conflict and the Palestinians have elected a peacemaker to represent them (not likely if the carnage of a year ago was still being acted out by Isreal).
I'm the last person to sing about this f+cked up administration but it isn't all failure!
On Iraq, tey rolled over... period! Those who didn't expect them to (myself included) should admit they were wrong about that, I do! BUT, we have yet to see how the rest of it will play out. We used uranium tipped bombs in one of the largest cities in the world, what will the effect be in 10 years time? It is a fact that the number of celebratory Iraqi's was as greatly exagerated as the number of anti war protestors leading up to this crap!
All you assholes who started singing about liberation back in February (yes that's when that argument took steam, it was the 8th or 9th reason for the war on the administration's laudry list of reasons to kill brown people!) are full of sh+t! This war had nothing to do with liberation... It was economic and strategic! There was no compassion in this crap!
Thankfully less people died than I thought... I'm dancin' over that one.. but that doesn't make what the US did OK... we have again unloaded our version of westernized "freedom" on a culture that did not ask for it! Napoleon was wildly unpopular in Europe, but he liberated every where he went! America is a monster in it's current form, and we have very few allies left who will go to bat for us because of it!
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