Vote for Death
If you decided it was a good idea to invade Iraq, in effect, you voted for the death of almost 2,500 of our kids. You voted for severe injuries to 15,000 of our kids. You voted for the death and injury of tens of thousands of Iraqi citizens. Is this harsh? Yes. Is it true? Yes. Deal with it. Don’t start making a bunch of lame excuses.
Now, if you cough up the ancient excuse that since we have wasted so many lives, we can’t stop now, then you are casting a vote to kill and injury and maim more of our kids and their citizens. That’s right. More of our children will die in the coming weeks and months and years. This is guaranteed. You know it. Soon, the death toll will equal the amount of people killed on 9/11. And the end result, at best, will be an Islamic government that will quickly eliminate democratic reforms and settle in to be a mild version of the Taliban regime. This what they are all dying for, folks. If you think it’s going to result in Norman Rockwell goes to the desert, you are dreaming. All of this because you cannot admit that this was a monumental fiasco in the first place.
So the argument then is; “We can’t leave now because all those lives will have been wasted because we were wrong to begin with.” It’s a terrible argument. It’s good money after bad, if you will.
Now, if you need to take the heat off of yourself in order to begin good, rational thinking for a change, then blame Bush. This was the dumb-ass idea of him and his sick and twisted cronies including Rumsfeld the reptile and Darth Cheney. This would not have happened if Bush the Lesser didn’t need to impress a domineering mother or a milktoast, sniveling father. At least Daddy knew better than to preemptively invade Iraq.
I have the mental image of all of us being locked in the dank hold of an ancient sailing ship. A fierce storm is raging outside, The wind is howling and the seas are tossing the ship like a cork towards huge, jagged rocks. And the captain is at the wheel in the hurricane. And the captain is totally, maniacally insane, laughing and howling at the storm and heading us all toward the rocks.
Have a nice day.
posted by Oman @ 9:46 AM
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4 Comments:
While I don't agree with the war or the pretenses we went to it under, I do think that we can't just pull out of Iraq and leave it up to their infant government and partially-trained military to deal with. We made a mess there, and I think we have an obligation to stay for some of the clean up.
I believe along with you that the idiots at the helm of this ship should be held accountable for this terrible decision but somehow I know they won't. I also don't think that big american companies that have silent partners in our government should be making any money there...we should be helping them to create their own economy and infrastructure.
BTW, I didn't vote for bonehead or any of his administation...but some idiots must have because he got in and is going to ruin as many things as possible until his reign is over or he gets impeached...
So what you're saying is that we need to squander even more lives to make up for Bush's mistake? And in the end Iraq will have a slightly different government than it had before. I wouldn't want to lose any of my children over such a notion.
I think that if we don't help clean up the mess that we as a country made, then we are going to leave Iraq just like we left Somalia, with no direction, leadership or hope. I don't want to lose any more lives than anyone else does but I don't know that there is an easy answer to the situation we are currently in.
If I could send Bush over there to clean up his own mess, I would.
It makes me sick that we went there in the first place (although I do think Saddam is a very bad man). I still think it was all about oil just like it was with Bush Sr, and anyone that tries to act suprised about the lack of WMD is just fooling themselves because it was NEVER about WMD.
I am not in any way convinced into thinking that Iraq will be a democracy when it is all said and done (don't think that we should be spreading that either) but I hope that it will be a better place to live for the majority of people there.
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