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3/29/2003 02:28:00 PM | Jared Alessandroni Vindication If such was needed. All over the news today, even from the Stevenson-style centrists at CNN, it has become clear that this war wouldn't be easy. It has become clear that while Mr. Hussein was a vile dictator, many Iraqis, and certainly many in the rest of the Arab world, are more concerned with our own brand of Facism. The dream of hoardes of newly freed civilians who chant our praise have sort of turned out to be as much a fantasy as any of the other pretexts of this war. The freed child has become the suicide bomber - at least one familliar face in all this, and a foreshadowing of what will likely be the most clear and literal impetus for organized terrorism the world has ever seen. We've managed to drop mis-fired bombs on Turkey and now, recently, Saudi Arabia, killed our own in what is perversely called friendly fire, and, with the exception of the UK, watched even futher denigration of our National image. Are we going to leave? No. Bush wouldn't pull out now. But, every day, the lie that is this war, the munchausen by-proxy that we're suffering, is becoming more and more obvious. As the body-count rises, the questions can not be suppressed. Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Where are the chemical weapons? Where is the populace that longs for American Democracy? Where's the mitigation of the terrorist threat? The American People stll support the war, but unless things change soon, even Fox News will have to post some news about our failure in Iraq. perma link |
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