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Posted on 01/15/2003 5:29:08 AM PST by Petronski
File this one under "Fiction".
This writer obviously doesn't like our President and I don't agree with that.
But,
To me alot of what he says holds true. I don't think this ouster of Sadaam is for oil so much as it is for revenge for the attack on George I.
I'm not prepared to give my approval for war against Iraq. I think we have more concern over China & North Korea than we do Iraq.
And lastly, I've had some discussions with people here about the Kurds, whom if I remember correctly, we promised to defend in Gulf War I. It seems to me we didn't and I haven't seen or heard anyone explain why we didn't. If Sadaam was such a 'Hitler' why didn't we do it right the first time?
John le Carré - English novelist
A PREDATORY AND DISHONEST WAR
This is High Noon for American democracy. The rights and freedoms that have made America the envy of the world are being systematically eroded. A new McCarthyism is abroad. Bush tells us that those who are not with him are against him. I am not with him.
The American over-reaction is beyond everything Osama could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams. But this war was planned long before Osama struck, and it is Osama who made it possible. Without him, the Bush junta would have been mired in Enron, electoral scandal and taxation sleeze. Thanks to Osama, Americans are instead being daily misled by their leaders and by their compliant corporate media.
There is a stink of religious self-righteousness in the air that reminds me of the British Empire at its worst. I cringe when I hear my Prime Minister lend his head prefect’s sophistries to this patently self-interested adventure to secure our oil supplies.
“But will we win, Daddy?”
“Of course we will, child, and quickly, while you are still in bed.”
“But will people be killed, Daddy?”
“There will be a few Western casualties. Very few. Go to sleep.”
“And after that, will everything be normal? Nobody will strike back? The terrorists will all be dead?”
“Wait till you’re older, dear. Goodnight.”
“And is it really true that last time round Iraq lost twice as many dead as America lost in the entire Vietnam war?”
“Hush child. That’s called history.”
Where’s the hurry? Iraq is a vile dictatorship, and Saddam is a monster who sits on the world’s second largest oil reserves. But there is ample time to consider how to unseat him before we plunge into this predatory and dishonest war. Leave the UN inspectors there. Convene Iraq’s neighbours. And consider for a moment where the will came from to make this war in the first place.
Americans can still awake to the shame of what is being done in their name.
Britain is half way there. The French and Russians have been bribed and browbeaten into submission. Only the good Germans have so far succeeded in sticking to their silent guns. I wish profoundly that the rest of us Europeans, in the spirit of a nobler President, would declare ourselves to be citizens of Berlin.
©John le Carré 2003
I got this far before I quit reading.
Well, I'll rephrase that, someone else probably would have stepped up.
My motto is, do it right the first time.
I susupect with comments like that you wont be around here very much longer. Is this Barbara Streisand or Michael Moore in disguise?
You know I take alot of heat here because I'm a cop. I've been called a fascist, a jackboot, "can't think for yourself", sheep, idiot etc.
So, my opinion is different than yours so "take your sorry peacenik ass to DU."
You would make a fine police officer, according to alot of people here.
Maybe you should go to DU if all you can do is name call and not come up with some answers. Name calling is the order of the day at DU when you don't have anything intelligent to say isn't it?
And, how 'bout them Kurds?
If I'm not around I'm not around. And unless you've had another screen name, I've been here a bit longer than you have.
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