What will they say when the dungeons are opened?

Freedom Institute ^ | 02/23/2003 | Mitchell Solomon

[LdSentinal]

"Vive le France"?

[Cincinatus]

So I ask again: What will they say when the dungeons are opened?

The same thing they said when the Soviet Union collapsed into the dustbin of history -- nothing. No mea culpas, no apologies, no admission of being wrong. They will use 101% of their energy to "prove" that each and every atrocity was caused by "US imperialism" or "unilateral thinking" or "big oil interests."

I hope nobody on our side is holding their breath, wating for "vindication." Because you'll never get it. There's only the next battle waiting after this one.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

What will they say when the dungeons are opened?

Not a damn thing. They'll hang their heads and say " who me ? I was all for getting rid of Saddam The whole time." In a year you'll be able to find more people who will admit they voted for Jimmy Carter ( i've only ever met one ) than were against the war. Those who are on record as antis will try and lie their way out of it by saying things like "that's not what I meant" or "that's not what I said". We now have them on tape, the web, and transcripts. All they will have for their defense are lame Democrat talking points that aren't even about the subject, their own all spin zone.

[chasio649]

Jimmy Carter was the last dem my father ever voted for...he will admit it...and i voted for Perot...we all make mistakes!! forgive me!!! ;)

[veronica]

They will say it's a set-up. They will say any weapons we find were planted. You are dealing with the OJ jury here. No amount of evidence will convince them. They side with the tyrants and dictators, and we will get no credit whatsoever. They just hate America and that's all there is to it.

[fporretto]

Those who defend Iraq's "sovereignty" are much less concerned with the quality of its "sovereign" than they are with obstructing the United States. There's hardly a one of them who's been willing to confront the objective evidence of Saddam Hussein's atrocities. They're united in denying that his regime has any connection to Islamic terrorism, despite his unabashed announcement that he would pay blood money to the families of Palestinian "martyrs."

These people have two desires: to see the United States thwarted, and to see Israel, the only democratic state in the Middle East, fall to its Islamic enemies. They will defend any force that appears capable of helping with those aims.

Why? Pure hatred?

I've racked my brain searching for an alternative explanation. Claims that the United States is to blame for Saddam's behavior are too obviously the reflexive emissions of people who would blame us for the monsoons in India, if they could. Claims that Israel "discriminates" against the Palestinians are absurd, especially in comparison to the carnival of death the Palestinians have inflicted both on the Israelis and their own, pitifully few dissidents.

When the "reasons" advanced are of this quality, you're not dealing with reason at all. What remains to be discovered is how they came by their antipathy to the only state in history formed as a refuge for a horribly tortured people, and to the only power in the history of the world that lifts up a fallen enemy and leaves him stronger than before.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[RippleFire]

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[walden]

The Bush administration is smarter than that-- the Pentagon is sending in 500 reporters from all kinds of news organizations, embedded in all sorts of units, with the troops. Checkmate.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Claims that the United States is to blame for Saddam's behavior are too obviously the reflexive emissions of people who would blame us for the monsoons in India..."

Heh--if the US is to blame for Saddam, then WHY are the antis complaining if it decides to FIX that mistake??

[Puddleglum]

I agree with the moral outrage of this article and wish the USA would channel the same outrage less selectively. No doubt China has weapons of mass destruction trained on us, too, and yet we do billions of dollars of busness with them. That too is wrong, I think. We should fight Iraq, but we should also give France and Germany no moral quarter, and that means we should end any of our own practices of empowering dictatorships through trade.

[palmer]

What will they say when the dungeons are opened?

Undoubtedly every jailed Iraqi criminal will be counted and double-counted as a "political" prisoner.

[libertylover]

I voted for Carter in 1976 partly because I thought it was the only way to clean house after Watergate. But I certainly did NOT vote for Carter in 1980 - I voted for Reagan, thank GOD.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What will they say when the dungeons are opened?

The same thing they said when the Soviet Union collapsed into the dustbin of history -- nothing. No mea culpas, no apologies, no admission of being wrong. They will use 101% of their energy to "prove" that each and every atrocity was caused by "US imperialism" or "unilateral thinking" or "big oil interests" simply change the subject.

It is the PR power of journalism--not love--which means "never having to say you're sorry."

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

the clouds of war once again drift toward the Fertile Crescent, propelled, not impeded, by the appeasement that gives the tyrant confidence he will again survive.

[Quix]

Supposedly, they and others are too busy setting up and guarding dungeons in the USA for the next global tyranny.

And Billdo and Shrillary sped the process along wholesale . . . evidently.

But I'd better not get too long about it.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

The left will probably say: "They werent political prisoners...they were getting treated for mental health problems"

As sure as the sun comes up every day...the lefties will make up some reason...some excuse

[JZoback]

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great article

[SLB]

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