hell’s handmaiden

The war hawks and ‘patriots’ have been name calling for quite some time now. Anyone suggesting we leave Iraq is a coward, is unamerican, is a weenie. Just last week Crawford had some pro-war demonstrations that serve as a good example.

About a dozen Bush supporters stood downtown yesterday with signs, one reading, “Real America won’t wimp out.”

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2005/Nov/20051127News012.asp

So, are these real Americans goin to turn on Bush now? Doubtful. But how is Bush goint to avoid it? Looks like he is going to dip his fingers into magic dust and spin things as if we’ve won.

The Neocons kept getting their promoters to proclaim how brilliant they are. But Wolfowitz isn’t exactly well published as an academic, and Feith is notoriously as thick as two blocks of wood. Their plain was stupid. It is hard to escape the conclusion that they are, as well.

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A man named Thomas Hobbes had the idea that all governments are bad but that any government, even a bad one, is better than no government at all. He had a point, and Iraq is proving it. This is the transition between one bad government and the next. It is a period of essentially no government. Lets sit back and watch the slaughter, shall we?

Some Sunni males have been found dead in ditches and fields, with bullet holes in their temples, acid burns on their skin, and holes in their bodies apparently made by electric drills. Many have simply vanished.

Well, I guess the courts only count when they conclude what Bush wants them to conclude.

Hussein is on trail, specifically, for an attack on Shiite villagers in 1982. ( What? You mean he isn’t on trail for WMDs? Or for repeatedly spitting in the general direction of the United States? Or for anything committed in the last twenty years? ) Now, I happen to think he is guilty of this crime, though I question whether it was worth a war to bring him to trial. ( I mean, we charge him with killing 150 people, and we kill thousands to get him in a courtroom? It hardly makes sense. ) At any rate, that trial is meaningless if the conclusions of its jurors is brushed aside and new charges filed until Bush gets what he wants. Have we abandonned the rule of law?

I am sooo glad we spent those billions to rid the world of Hussein.

‘People are doing the same as [in] Saddam’s time and worse,’ Ayad Allawi told The Observer. ‘It is an appropriate comparison. People are remembering the days of Saddam. These were the precise reasons that we fought Saddam and now we are seeing the same things.’

The Observer | International | Abuse worse than under Saddam, says Iraqi leader

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