Iraq: "a left-wing war of liberation"
Published January 29, 2004
....My friend said, "I'm for the UN and international law, and I think you've become a traitor to the left. A neocon!"
I said, "I'm for overthrowing tyrants, and since when did overthrowing fascism become treason to the left?"
"But isn't George Bush himself a fascist, more or less? I mean-admit it!"
My own eyes widened. "You haven't the foggiest idea what fascism is," I said. "I always figured that a keen awareness of extreme oppression was the deepest trait of a left-wing heart. Mass graves, three hundred thousand missing Iraqis, a population crushed by thirty-five years of Baathist boots stomping on their faces-that is what fascism means! And you think that a few corrupt insider contracts with Bush's cronies at Halliburton and a bit of retrograde Bible-thumping and Bush's ridiculous tax cuts and his bonanzas for the super-rich are indistinguishable from that?-indistinguishable from fascism? From a politics of slaughter? Leftism is supposed to be a reality principle. Leftism is supposed to embody an ability to take in the big picture. The traitor to the left is you, my friend . . ." My God, what a thing of beauty! "Yes," I shouted over and over again as I read, frightening birds outside my window. "Yes! the big picture! George W. Bush isn't the issue! Tears of joy stained my cheeks - THIS is why I support the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq.
"FUCK WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION," I screamed gleefully out the front door, causing the mail carrier to hasten her step across the tundra, casting a furtive glance in my direction as she sped off in her little mail buggy.
Paul Berman - my kind of pinko. Okay, I'm done now.
- Iraq: "a left-wing war of liberation"
- Published: January 29, 2004
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- Writer: Eric Olsen
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Tom speaketh with wisdom!
Thanks, I think, but I don't see how the substance can be dismissed tht glibly.
liberalism has become desiesed..........truth is the only cure
If we mean "diseased" I ruefully agree.
liberalism is diseased, conservatism is blinded.
whatever.
I thought it was conservatism is evil, liberalism is stupid.
conservatism is dingie, liberalism is loopy.
take yer pick.
Honor the Fallen
"Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jerry A. Tharp, 44, of Muscatine, Iowa; assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25, Rock Island, Ill; killed July 12 as a result of enemy action when his dismounted patrol was struck by an improvised explosive device while operating in the Anbar province of Iraq." - militarycity.com
"The (44-year old Tharp) father, grandfather, brother and husband was known as a handyman by a neighbor who lived near the Tharps when they lived in Keithsburg. His handiwork was evident as the siding of their three-story home was not yet complete and a hole where a pond was to be was still covered.
"He liked to work with his hands," (Tharp's neighbor) Ms. Howard said. "Anytime anybody needed some help, Jerry was there. And he was funny. A very happy-go-lucky guy. When we'd walk across the alley by their house, he'd always shout, 'Hey, neighbor.' Everybody loved Jerry."
- pigstye.net
++American soldiers killed since the invasion: 2,570**
++American soldiers wounded in action: 18,990**
++Cost of invasion/occupation to date: $298.9 billion**
**and counting...
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To hell with WMD. That is big, but freeing a repressed people is the real prize.
What is also frightening is how much power Hussein was lacking. There were senior aides and officials working behind his back. The only think scarier than a world with Hussein is a world with Hussein thinking he is still in control.