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who will entertain your moron?
Apr 10, 2003, 19:42
A girl was telling me yesterday how she'd always supported the war because Saddam'd been using his own citizens as human shields all along. She'd always believed that ALL dead Irakis had been killed by Saddam himself by putting them in the wrong places, not by misled US bombs (cos they're the good ones, see) I realized how much crap people can believe from their daily dose of TV. Obviously, if someone is bent on seeing the world in black and white then fair enough for them.

Picture the scene - of all the countries that pose a danger to world stability, the US pick the one they know best (NB the US and the UK still keep the receipts and expiry dates of the chemical weapons they sold to their erstwhile ally Saddam) and decide to attack the most battered country, as it's the one most likely to create the expected hollymediawood success story in the least expected time (3 weeks so far). Make a few bucks in the process of re-building and make sure the financial links that France and Russia used to have are redirected towards the New Masters. Everyone's happy in the States and Bush hopes to get voted into power again. Another fairy-tale for the bulk of inane tales in US folk memory.

As with Afghanistan, triple the number of innocents as the ones killed in the Twin Towers have had to be sacrificed. Those that died were poor souls that happened to be in the way of the fickle US juggernaut - what's worse, they don't count as victims as war has a habit of making murdered people 'part of the package of war'. And everyone accepts this.

Anyone who digs a bit deeper in the history of the Middle East region knows the scenes of jubilation are not for the US BUT for the decades-long regime that's gone. 'Someone had to do the job', plankton-brained Bush-clones say, but the cost of lives and destruction (and the pent-up US hatred that this has created) exceeds any justification for a change of regime. On top of all that, now come the bloodiest moments as people, both Western and Muslim begin to fight for the biggest slice and as those that are hiding turn from soldier to suicide bomber. No-one round the world trusts a superpower that is capable of anything and goes anywhere unilaterally without respect for other cultures.

The war in Irak has just started. And the US is losing it.
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