June 22, 2003
Chutzpah
You've got to hand it to the Bush Administration. Even while they're digging up anthrax in Maryland, while Los Alamos can't account for all of its plutonium stocks and North Carolina teeters on the brink, while Congress has given the go-ahead for "mini-nukes" and production of nuclear triggers is set to resume, while at least a few people are speaking out about the poisoning of Iraq and Afghanistan for time immemorial, and, yes, while not a whiff of a banned weapons programme has yet been uncovered in Iraq; the Administration is not resting on its laurels.
Iran is, as we know, coming under much scrutiny for its nuclear weapons programme, a blockade of North Korea is under consideration and Richard Perle "can't rule out" a "surgical strike", Syria's back in the gun sights, and now Libya is being warned over its "pursuit of WMD". (Meanwhile, al-Qaeda may have pinched a 727 and, "As many as 30 suspected terrorists may still be in the United States because of continuing flaws in the county's visa program and poor communication between federal agencies." But, you know, boys will be boys.)
Assuming (for the sake of argument) that the Bush Administration isn't "agressively pursuing" nuclear armageddon, one must conclude that it's probably bluffing. (How else explain the confluence of the bluster with new warnings lamenting Dubya's "imperial over-stretch" -- specifically that "our policy in Afghanistan is definitely on track to fail," and that Iraq's reconstruction is "in chaos"? ) Or more likely that it figures that the world will put up a few contrary bleats, then capitulate just as fully as it did over the slaughter of Iraq.
Shall we prove the Administration wrong?
Posted by Eddie Tews at June 22, 2003 10:18 AM
Comments
How many people think that an "illegal, unprovoked, unilateral 'disarmament' of the United States by some outside force would be justified?" Well, you're comparing the morality and the condition of the people of Iraq to those that live in the US. What a joke. This is war, and there are no rules. There really is no such thing as international law because who is there to enforce it? We are. We do what we see fit because we can. We have been and continue to be driven by the basic human desire for freedom and have proved that we will do anything to ensure that freedom. How silly is the idea that those from Iraq are anything like Americans or some "outside force" could ever overthrow us. The worst enemy we have are those like you, the writer of this article, those that seek to divide us. Look in the mirror. YOU are that "outside force." To suggest that Americans are anything like those from Iraq, that have chosen to live and tolerate their oppression from dictators and murders for years is absurd. We did them a favor and they're still scared that some boogie man is going to come get them. "Unprovoked!" How dare you! If you would have been washing windows on the twin towers on Sept 11 you'd feel much differently about your choice of words when you say such things. Not counting niggers - what's that supposed to mean? -- Posted by: zulu time on July 26, 2003 10:45 AM