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December 26, 2005

Amen....

This about says it all for me...

One wonders if Osama bin Laden didn't win after all. He ruined the America that existed on 9/11. But he had help.
If, back in 2001, anyone had told me that four years after bin Laden's attack our president would admit that he broke U.S. law against domestic spying and ignored the Constitution -- and then expect the American people to congratulate him for it -- I would have presumed the girders of our very Republic had crumbled.

Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people claiming a threat that never, in fact, existed, then admit he would have invaded even if he had known there was no threat -- and expect America to be pleased by this -- I would have thought our nation's sensibilities and honor had been eviscerated.

If I had been informed that our nation's leaders would embrace torture as a legitimate tool of warfare, hold prisoners for years without charges and operate secret prisons overseas -- and call such procedures necessary for the nation's security -- I would have laughed at the folly of protecting human rights by destroying them.

If someone had predicted the president's staff would out a CIA agent as revenge against a critic, defy a law against domestic propaganda by bankrolling supposedly independent journalists and commentators, and ridicule a 37-year Marie Corps veteran for questioning U.S. military policy -- and that the populace would be more interested in whether Angelina is about to make Brad a daddy -- I would have called the prediction an absurd fantasy.

That's no America I know, I would have argued. We're too strong, and we've been through too much, to be led down such a twisted path.

Found at Bark Bark, Woof Woof, who has some dynamite commentary on the Op/Ed, please check it out.

Posted by David A at December 26, 2005 01:58 PM
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"Had anyone said our president would invade a country and kill 30,000 of its people..."

Funny, I thought that a LOT of those were being killed by the other guys. In fact, since the "end of major combat operations," I'd be willing to bet that the majority of the innocents being killed were by the other side.

To put the deaths of all of them on Bush's shoulders is an obscenity. It completely absolves the real butchers of any responsibility for their actions. And it might even smack a little of racism, where it can be argued that only white men are truly capable of telling right from wrong, while the darkies just do what their nature tells them to do.

Yes, it takes two to fight. But sometimes fighting isn't the worst of all possible solutions. When one side decides to be violent and the other simply, passively "takes it," that's even worse -- because it inculcates the belief in the aggressor that such things can and will be tolerated, and that they can "get away" with it.

But as long as the wogs are just killing each other off, and not bothering us decent Westerners, that's OK? Saddam wasn't so bad, he only killed his own? (Well, except for Kuwaitis, and Israelis, and Iranians... well, you get the idea.)

Yes, the deaths of 30,000 Iraqis is sad. But 1) statistical analysis shows that a very disproportionate ratio of them are military-age men, meaning that a good chunk of them were probably insurgents/terrorists/criminals who chose to live by the sword -- and, consequently, died by the sword, and 2) we ain't doing all the killing. How many of those died in bombings, beheadings, massacres, and other acts by those Michael Moore called the moral equivalent of the United States' founding fathers?

Posted by: Jay Tea at December 27, 2005 08:43 AM