WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Then Ted Rall, the untalented cartoonist and even worse columnist, sure is strong. In HOW WE LOST THE IRAQ WAR (really!), UsefulTed gets suckered by a website claiming that all Iraqi celebrations were staged. No mention of why Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi TV would participate in such fraud. He does include the obligatory comment about how it is good that Saddam is gone, though he didn't care that anyone do anything about Saddam.
The end of Saddam Hussein comes as welcome news, even if it's merely the accidental byproduct of a barely-disguised oil grab.Right, if we wanted Saddam's oil, all we had to do was lift the sanctions as the French wanted. Saddam was always willing to sell his oil cheap to undercut his OPEC "friends" and finance his military state and palace construction projects.
But as Iraq's cities burn and its patrimony is hustled off into the black market and its women wail and the rape gangs rule the night, it's hard to escape the conclusion that we've lost this war as well.Sure, it's hard to escape that notion if you're short on your meds. Only now is UsefulTed concerned about rape in Iraq. We wasn't at all concerned when rape was an instrument of torture employed by the state. If your local newspaper carries this idiot, you may want to demand equal time for his right wing equivalent (you know, the black helicopter crowd) for more laughs. Sad thing is, some people actually believe this guy.