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Allow me to fisk your ass.
"So, at a cost of trillions of dollars to the American taxpayer, George Bush finally got his bogey-man. The broken man was pulled from his "spider hole" by heroic American troops, and the world is once again a safe place, but what did "The Butcher of Bagdad" do to deserve this?"
It's spelled 'Baghdad', by the way. The poor broken man you speak of is responsible for over one million deaths, not to mention the torture, rape, and miscellaneous repression.
"For years, he was the darling of the American right wing, but one day, he stepped out of line by threatening America's favourite dictatorship in the region, Saudi Arabia, by invading Kuwait."
Pure, unsubstantiated bullshit. The Gulf War was approved by the UN. Iraq was attacked because they defied a UNSC resolution telling them to get out of Kuwait. Saddam was not the 'darling' of the American right wing. The US supported Iraq in the Iraq-Iran war because Iraq was fighting... guess who? Iran, a totalitarian theocracy, and a declared enemy of the US. If you'd bother to do your homework, the US was not alone in supporting the Ba'athists back then.
"Of course, we all remember what happened then, a war was fought and won, and all was well with the world again. So what was the reason for going back? According to George Bush, Hussein was the world's most dangerous man, hoarding huge stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction, aiding and abetting the terrorists that attacked America on 9/11/2001, seeking nuclear armament, and threatening the security of the free world. Of course, even an idiot could see that these were all blatant lies..."
Yes, of course it's a blatant lie that Bush said he's hoarding huge stockpiles of WMD, aiding and abetting Al Qaeda. It is FACT that Saddam was a dangerous man - just go ask the Kurds, the Iranians, or the Kuwaitis. It is FACT that Saddam was seeking nuclear armament. It is FACT that a dictator who gassed his own population and started two expansionist wars against his neighbours, launched SCUDs at Israel, possessed WMD, sought nuclear weapons, held himself to be the Second Coming of Saladin, and was quite certifiably insane is a fucking threat to the security of the free world.
"...and while Hussein was truly an evil man, he wasn't capable of threatening the security of any other nation after having virtually all of his military hardware destroyed in the first Gulf War conflict, and being worn down by a plethora of sanctions, embargos, and continued bombing of his country."
So the US had three options - leave him in power, and keep the sanctions in place, allowing Saddam complete freedom to pursue WMD programs funded by his pillaging of the Oil for Food program, while the Iraqi people suffer under a brutal dictator AND United Nations sanctions. Or, the US could leave him in power, and lift the sanctions, and just HOPE that Hussein had mended his ways and would not use the situation to rearm himself (or buy a nuke). Think of all the Palestinian homicide bombers Saddam could afford to buy with that kind of money. Third, the US could demand that Iraq unconditionally subjects to UNSC resolutions and disarms, failure to do this resulting in toppling Saddam by force. I guess leftist asshats like you prefer that those distant brown people starve to death under sanctions, or, Chomsky forbid, they might one day open a McDonalds in Baghdad.
"As for the terrorist connection, anyone who took the time to even do 10 minutes of research on the matter would know that Hussein ruled with an iron fist, and terrorist groups were not tolerated in the regions of Iraq that he controlled. Despite the implied and specifc connections between Hussein and the September 11th terrorist attacks constantly fed to us through the American media, and George Bush, anyone who knew anything about the matter was fully aware that not only did Hussein not assist al-Quaeda in any manner, but he positively hated them."
Bullshit. Saddam financed nearly every terrorist organization in the Middle East. And no, Saddam wasn't behind 9/11. No one ever said he was. This is not the War on Al Qaeda. This is the War on Terrorism. No one in the Bush Administration has ever claimed otherwise.
"The feeling was mutual, with one of the tenet's of al-Quaeda's beliefs calling for the destruction of Hussein's secular government. The man was clearly an infidel - he even allowed synagogues into his country."
Ever heard that old saying - the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Like, you know, the West teaming up with Stalin to defeat Hitler? The one common ground every Islamofascist nutball has is blind, unconditional hatred of the USA and everything for which she stands. You know, like your blind, unconditional hatred for everything to the right of Fidel.
"On the subject of his alleged stockpiles of "Weapons of Mass Destruction", again, a minimal amount of research would reveal that the only WMDs that he ever possesed were supplied to him by his old ally - the USA."
Total, utter, laughable BULLSHIT. It is well documented that Iraq had piles and piles of weaponized anthrax, which the US has never given anyone. The vast majority of Iraq's weapons, both conventional and chemical, were supplied by the French, the Russians, and various other commie regimes around the world.
" The reason that the UN inspections didn't reveal any stockpiles of these deadly armaments were simply that he no longer had any - not that the UN inspection teams were inefficient, or that he was a master of hiding them. Again, many people could have told you this before the sequel to the Gulf War was ever launched, but for even the staunchest believer in the deceptions of George Bush, the truth is now painfully obvious."
Bullcrap. Saddam was under sanctions because he was known to have WMD in 1991, and he refused to give them up. So you're saying he destroyed them all, but didn't tell anyone, like, say the goddamn inspectors so he COULD LIFT THE SANCTIONS?
"Though Americans will bear a burden of financial debt for this farce for years to come, the real victims are the Iraqi people who have been murdered in the course of the American lead war. The 3,000 people that died on September 11th pales in comparison with the number of Iraqis murdered in the period from the first Gulf War to the present day."
Fuck you. Go ask the vast majority of Iraqis if they preferred Saddam's plastic shredders to a few errant JDAMs. Saddam killed nearly TWO MILLION people over the course of two decades. He showed no signs of stopping. You don't even have any numbers or sources to substantuate your shrill leftist lies. A suggestion - go find out exactly how many civilians were killed by Coalition forces since March. Then keep in mind that Saddam's track record was 270 people dead every single day. How many fucking WEEKS would it take to catch up with ACCIDENTAL civilian casualties?
"We've all heard the stories of "mistakes", such as a bus load of unarmed women and children being gunned down by nervous American troops at a checkpoint, but you can rest assured that there's a great deal more that we don't hear about in the mainstream media."
Why the fuck not? It's not as if the mainstream media misses any chance to criticize the Bush 'junta', now does it? Your tired little leftist rant would be so much less retarded if you actually tried to justify your hatred of Bush with actual FACTS.
"Every American who supported this war is guilty of one of two things - either willfully and knowingly supporting an unjustifiable war for purely jingoistic reasons, or being so staggeringly stupid as to have not seen through the lies of their government and media in building up support for this invasion. Either way, they're as guilty as the men who flew jets into skyscrapers."
And every dickless little Marx-reading hippie like you is responsible for the 100+ million deaths caused by leftist regimes in the 20th century. And, no, I'm not American. I'm Estonian, and that means I grew up with a bit more insight into the alternative to 'right wing oil juntas'. It was the US and her uber-right-wing president, Reagan, that freed me and my country.
Here's a pop quiz - name any country the US has waged war against that is occupied and whose oil is being stolen. THERE IS NO SUCH COUNTRY.
"Of course, the lies don't end here. Amerca's stated goal of promoting democracy in the region is yet another totally transparent deception. America's refusal to turn over control of the country to Iraqi authorities, and their refusal to allow allow free elections to take place can only be for one reason - they know that free elections won't go the way that they want, and so they continue their illegal occupation."
Did you give a rim job to Robert Fisk or is there some other reason you're spouting his crap verbatim? America has NOT refused to turn over control to Iraqi authorities. There simply aren't any damn authorities to begin with - Germany was occupied for DECADES after World War II, yet you want control of a war-torn, volatile country turned over to god knows who because of what exactly? Oh, I'm sorry, how stupid of me. It's your blinding anti-americanism, of course. The occupation is not illegal. The war was not illegal. Saddam violated UNSC resolutions, ending the cease-fire of 1991, allowing the US to finish the UNSC-sanctioned war by deposing Iraq's corrupt dictatorship, temporarily occupying the country while any remaining insurgents are eliminated, the infrastructure of the country restored, and a constitutional democracy created. It is Dominique de Villepin's (who is a man) opinion that another resolution was needed. Nowhere in the resolutions passed does it say that.
But why argue? Your capacity for logic has exceeded it's limits whenever anything more complicated than "US = bad" comes up.
"The severity of the wrongs done here can never be righted, but the truly right way to go is another thing that doesn't look like happening any time soon. Control of the reconstruction of Iraq should be turned over to the UN, and be funded exclusively by the countries that took part in this atrocity. Bush, Blair et al should be handed over to international authorities, and tried as war criminals, and financial reparations should be paid to the people of Iraq by the guilty coalition members. Any country that refused to take part in this debacle should be truly proud of themselves. France, Germany, Canada, and all the others that said "No" to Bush, despite the ongoing bribe of lucrative reconstruction contracts should be commended for standing up for what is right and decent, and should be the ONLY countries allowed to bid on reconstruction projects."
Blah blah blah. If wishes were horses, you'd be gang raped by rabid leprechauns.
"So, Bush caught his monster, but there is a far more evil man still at large, who poses a threat to the security of free nations unheard of since the fall of Hitler. To hope that Bush is held accountable for his crimes is a fool's hope, but we can all hope that this monster doesn't get to serve another terms as president, and that maybe somebody with at least a shred of decency will become president at the end of 2004. If you are a citizen of America, use your vote wisely, and don't allow this man to dig your country even deeper into the dirt."
Go look up Godwin's Law, you worthless waste of nerve cells. Go compare Bush and Hitler to an Auschwitz surviver, why don't you. Cretin.
