What passes for my brain
Is it August already? It was ski season last night, or so it seems... and all that stuff I was supposed to have gotten done by May is still not done. Wow.
Okay, enough abut me.
Former President Carter is lashing out at the war on terror... again... as usual... He is still calling the interment operation at Gautanamo Bay an embarasment, etc...
Yes, Gitmo, home of the dreaded Harry Potter torture... There is nothing untoward going on down there and there never has been. By claiming that there is, former President Carter is making himself the fool. At least he is smart enough not to say outright that anything we are doing is causing terrorism, I have to give him that.
He was also trying to say that the war in Iraq is unjust and unneccessary... this from the man who saw nothing wrong with the Venezualan elections...
His words are a lovely opportunity to point out some things that have been percolating though what passes for my brain.
When would have been a better time to bring Saddam down? Surely, nobody could abide this man staying in power. How many thousands did he kill? How many chemical and biological weapons did he use? How many chemical and biological weapons did he export to splinter gorups? If anything that U.S. has been doing lately troubles your concience, what Iraq was under Saddam Hussein should be giving you nightmares that land you in the assylum. So, should we have stepped in? Perhaps years ago, when the first set of UN deadlines came and went without any cooperation from the man... perhaps years in the future, when Saddam finally got his atom bomb? Just how much were we supposed to let go by? Were we supposed to negotiate for another 12 years?
It is clear now that huge numbers of Iraqis did not like the way things were and not only desired but were willing to fight for democracy and a bit of freedom. We made sure/are making sure that they have it. How is this a bad thing? How is the establishment of a fair goverment a bad thing? How is the liberation of millions a bad thing? Are there people out there that honestly believe that they deserve to live in peace, prosperity, and freedom, but that others do not? Are there people who think that that they are somehow better than people that live elsewhere?
With the execution of this war, Saddam and his network have been removed and/or destroyed, removing one of the more malevolent regimes out there and replacing it with a far more just form of government. All of the Iraqi WMD production capability is gone. Many of the WMD have been neutralized. One of the few avenues for Islamofacists to obtain nuclear wepons is gone. Terrorists that are intent on killing Americans are swarming to Iraq where American and Iraqi troops are cutting them down... saving us the trouble of hunting them.
Could somebody please tell me what could possibly be bad about any of this? It all looks good to me.
Charlie Foxtrot out.
Okay, enough abut me.
Former President Carter is lashing out at the war on terror... again... as usual... He is still calling the interment operation at Gautanamo Bay an embarasment, etc...
Yes, Gitmo, home of the dreaded Harry Potter torture... There is nothing untoward going on down there and there never has been. By claiming that there is, former President Carter is making himself the fool. At least he is smart enough not to say outright that anything we are doing is causing terrorism, I have to give him that.
He was also trying to say that the war in Iraq is unjust and unneccessary... this from the man who saw nothing wrong with the Venezualan elections...
His words are a lovely opportunity to point out some things that have been percolating though what passes for my brain.
When would have been a better time to bring Saddam down? Surely, nobody could abide this man staying in power. How many thousands did he kill? How many chemical and biological weapons did he use? How many chemical and biological weapons did he export to splinter gorups? If anything that U.S. has been doing lately troubles your concience, what Iraq was under Saddam Hussein should be giving you nightmares that land you in the assylum. So, should we have stepped in? Perhaps years ago, when the first set of UN deadlines came and went without any cooperation from the man... perhaps years in the future, when Saddam finally got his atom bomb? Just how much were we supposed to let go by? Were we supposed to negotiate for another 12 years?
It is clear now that huge numbers of Iraqis did not like the way things were and not only desired but were willing to fight for democracy and a bit of freedom. We made sure/are making sure that they have it. How is this a bad thing? How is the establishment of a fair goverment a bad thing? How is the liberation of millions a bad thing? Are there people out there that honestly believe that they deserve to live in peace, prosperity, and freedom, but that others do not? Are there people who think that that they are somehow better than people that live elsewhere?
With the execution of this war, Saddam and his network have been removed and/or destroyed, removing one of the more malevolent regimes out there and replacing it with a far more just form of government. All of the Iraqi WMD production capability is gone. Many of the WMD have been neutralized. One of the few avenues for Islamofacists to obtain nuclear wepons is gone. Terrorists that are intent on killing Americans are swarming to Iraq where American and Iraqi troops are cutting them down... saving us the trouble of hunting them.
Could somebody please tell me what could possibly be bad about any of this? It all looks good to me.
Charlie Foxtrot out.
posted by Charlie Foxtrot at 10:43
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