Anyone remember that the reason we invaded Iraq was supposedly because they presented an immediate threat to the US, with their supposed WMD’s? Oh, Iraqis are dancing in the streets? Looks like our pre-emptive, unilateral invasion of a sovereign nation was justified. Maybe if Russia invades and kills Bush, I’ll dance in the streets for them, and justify their invasion of us.
The logic behind people’s thinking that this is now a just war, because some residents of Baghdad are happy is so patently absurd on its face that it boggles the mind that such a high percentage of our citizenry can be so god damned stupid. We invaded a sovereign nation. We did not prove that it presented an immediate threat to us. We deposed a bad guy, who we knew was a bad guy, that no one questioned. We walked all over their military, something no one quesitoned would happen. We did so at the expense of alienating our allies, spending well into the trillions of dollars (by the time our nation-building exercise is complete), and creating a new, pre-emptive doctrine for “self-defense” that upends the concepts of real “self-defense.”
It is staggering to me, to believe that people are so unwilling or unable to see the consequences of what our nation has done. It boggles my mind that people *support* this nonsense, and it is obscene, to me, that I can be labelled “not supporting our troops” or “unAmerican” for even *questioning* why we would undertake such a monumentally stupid course of action.
Fuck you, President Bush. Fuck you and your Republican cronies, who have manipulated the nation with fear, with intimidation, and by using the memory of the tragedy of September 11th. Fuck you, Ashcroft, for the Patriot Act (and its potential sequel) and fuck the Congress for allowing this to happen. This is no democracy, this is capitalism run completely amok. The real test of our nation is whether we have the capacity to understand what we have done, and bear the consequences, starting with removing this criminal administration from power in 2004, and bringing those responsible to justice.
Starting with the incompetant leader that was foisted on us.