Um ....
You forgot the other 10 milion or whatever that didn't protest.
In Oregon, during the 1990s, a Libertarian movement (not associated with the party, as I recall) tried to pass a bill that would count all registered voters who did not vote in any given election as votes "against" spending; if the ballot question was "Should the state raise this tax to this point?" the non-voters would be counted as "no", but if the question was, "Should the state rescind this tax?" the non-voters would be counted as "yes". Quite obviously, they needed those non-voters to be counted as "yes" votes in order to get the law passed, but what of the millions of Americans who did no protesting at all during this war? Will you count them as "for America" or "against America"?
I just don't understand why some people, in the name of the People, will ignore the People.
We should not have promised the Iraqi people liberation; it would appear that at least 200,000 are smart enough to not expect true liberation.
Remember the joyous Iraqis dancing in the street as Saddam's statue fell? All 150 of them? What about the other 20,000,000?
In the future, can we
please stick to points of functional value? I would like to hear what the war supporters have to say about what should be done. The Iraqi debacle is, after all,
their show. And what a show it is: staged joy, hidden dissent, the noble Iraqi people looting hospitals and raping mental patients, the living history of Iraq--it's artistic and cultural treasures--stolen and looted in symbolic acts of "superiority"?
We have entered a new era of the "let them eat cake" idea: Bloody revolt is wrong unless it's an alternative to bloody invasion, but in the end, change can't come unless
everyone agrees, unless of course the invading country is doing it for money, and then you just say that you're doing it for the right reasons and never really pay attention to anyone else. Look--nobody can stop the US right now because of our strength. Yet we wonder why Bin Laden nailed us? What's going to happen when someone who can do
severe damage to the US has had enough? Will we be as stupidly surprised as we were by 9/11? Will we be as inanely perturbed as we are by the French? Will we be as idiotically complacent with dishonesty as we have been under Shepherd Bush the Savior of the New American Century? Let them all eat fucking cake, say the war-dogs. They can't stop us unless they sacrifice all their principles of humanity and become as soulless and bloodthirsty as our warring cabal!
It's win-win for the petty, and lose-lose for everyone else. Strange how the exploitative and self-righteous is the preferred way; it just leads to more self-righteous exploitation.
Someday, you might actually hear me say that the Iraqi Bush War was worth it, but I sincerely doubt it. By the time "success" is achieved, the death toll may be as high as if we'd left Saddam to rot in his own miserable noplace, just like we've tried doing to North Korea except for their dogged determination to make Bush look foolish. I tell them, they're trying too hard; just ask the guy to speak about anything--that'll do it.
Good luck to the Iraqi people; they'll need it with the Corporate Raiders in the neighborhood.
Remember, though, those who support this exercise in post-colonial imperialism: the miseries, as well as the glories, are your inheritance. With Hussein no longer around to hold accountable, it will be your bloodthirsty asses I hold responsible.
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Tiassa
