Leighton wrote:How can Osama be responsible for thousands of indirect deaths by planning for 4 plane hyjacks and a few car bomb attacks... yet Bush is immune from public prosecution cause he planned wholesale invasions of entire nations indirectly killing tens of thousands. Bizarro logic there.
Anyway...
You do realise conservative politics put Saddam in power in Iraq in the first place, don't you? Guess who's intelligence and money he used to stockpile his country with.
Of course, after the war with Iran, Saddam became expendable and the West turned on him. That's hype.
The West ignored his reason for invading Kuwait (they tapped Iraqi oil fields) so they could get their nemises after communism fell. That's hype.
The West ravaged the entire country for a decade with blockades just so they could roll the nation in a month. That was all hype. And what was the reason for invasion again?
Don't even try to deny you weren't fooled by the hype.
When Saddam was caught, Zarqawi became the new hype factor for your press and Government and you can bet your bottom dollar he was killed on queue to improve relations with Iraq after the last week's Haditha massacre revelations.
Convenient to be sure. All positive spins, hype. Guess who's claimed the $25mill reward for his death? Yup, insurgents.
There'll be another Zarqawi. You'll fall for it again. You'll learn nothing. You'll feel better that you have someone to "cheer" against and your press will do the Government's job in distracting you. Americans come out to voice their opinions on gay people getting married when it has nothing to do with them, yet they don't think twice about pissing away trillions on this Iraq debacle that had nothing to do with Osama at all. There's now more troops in Afghanistan now, than there was 4 years ago. Imagine if this number was at Tora Bora when Osama was there. Imagine if the 180000 troops now in Iraq were at Tora Bora! That's how fucked up the American logic is. There's more troops 'liberating' Iraq then there was Afghanistan and the Taliban there loved terrorists while Saddam wouldn't stand for it.
It's sad that so many are easily glossed over with hype and simply don't take notice of what got you in the shit in the first place. You cheer this shit on like it was Monday night football cause it's shoved down your throat on TV. You even admit it. You live for these guys cause it gives your nation the focus of not worrying about domestic issues that actually effect you. Gay marriage seems to get people's blood boiled in the US when the private lives of other's don't affect you. I'd be a little more concerned that my country owed China hundreds of billions in your budget deficet. A bill that'll take generations to overcome. Good thing you're all fond of the Chinese.
Bush has not brought liberation to Iraq. He's brought a full-blown civil war to them. 1000 civilian deaths in Baghdad alone last month. That total is nothing on what Saddam did. Of course the US says Iraq has been on the "brink" of civil war for years now, but what else do you call 2 political/religious groups killing the fuck out of each other on the same soil? It's civil war. You just don't want to call it that until the press gives you the OK.
Shit, even the kurds who were supposed to be the big ole reason to rid Iraq of Saddam are now considered terrorists cause they bomb Turkish targets. Fancy that, Saddam was killing people now considered terrorists and you didn't cheer that... cause your press told you to hate him for that. You're easily led.
The ultimate goal of this occupation is to create 3 seperate states (religiously based) and have them bicker at each other for as long as the US can milk it. America won't attack Iran cause if they face defeat to home-made bombs in Iraq, then they'll have no chance of winning even public support against a progressive nation like Iran. In fact, the Iran sidetrack is diversion itself... hype.
