People used to fight over salt.
I'm glad the "opposition" in congress have finally got the guts (more likely followed the wind of public opinion, a smelly, foul wind) to stop pretending it's unpatriotic to want our friends to come home from that desert hell and never go back.
We didn't go over there ot free anybody, we went because of a kind of war hysteria that swept over our country. We went because somehow, we were convinced Iraq was going to attack us.
That was so stupid, in hindsight I think more people see it now, but at the time, if you said so, you were called un-american, pro-terrorist, you name it. It was ugly. It's happened to us before.
It'll probably happen again.
I know we want meaning for our friends and family who died for Iraq, but let's face it. They ought to be alive, and Iraq is no better off and neither are we. And the whole reason we got talked into invading that country was so some people could make money. This was an imperial adventure, not taken in the long term interest of the United States, it was plain robbery. We sent our defence force (that's really what they're supposed to be right?) to another country to steal their stuff. And it's not like you and me even get a cut, we just get to sacrifice.
Yesterday more marines died out there in the desert, and more silver was paid to mercenaries and war profiteers.
If those marines were your sons, wouldn't you rather have just one of them come home alive than all the oil in all the deserts of the world?
We didn't go over there ot free anybody, we went because of a kind of war hysteria that swept over our country. We went because somehow, we were convinced Iraq was going to attack us.
That was so stupid, in hindsight I think more people see it now, but at the time, if you said so, you were called un-american, pro-terrorist, you name it. It was ugly. It's happened to us before.
It'll probably happen again.
I know we want meaning for our friends and family who died for Iraq, but let's face it. They ought to be alive, and Iraq is no better off and neither are we. And the whole reason we got talked into invading that country was so some people could make money. This was an imperial adventure, not taken in the long term interest of the United States, it was plain robbery. We sent our defence force (that's really what they're supposed to be right?) to another country to steal their stuff. And it's not like you and me even get a cut, we just get to sacrifice.
Yesterday more marines died out there in the desert, and more silver was paid to mercenaries and war profiteers.
If those marines were your sons, wouldn't you rather have just one of them come home alive than all the oil in all the deserts of the world?
posted by JC at 12:43 PM
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