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Iraqi Civilian Deaths ... caused by Bush's unprovoked war

 

You Want War?
Remember Mogadishu, Somalia? Maybe too many Americans don't remember. Remember Vietnam? (The films "Black Hawk Down" and "We Were Soldiers" might refresh your memory.) When Americans sit on the sofa and say "let's go to war," they're saying that young Americans should be subjected to the hellish suffering, blood, pain, and death of war.

In Mogadishu and in the battle in Drang Valley in Vietnam, Americans fought heroically and selflessly sacrificed themselves. But for what? Neither one mattered a damned bit. Neither one changed anything. A quarter of a million wounded and 57,000 dead Americans later, Vietnam went communist. In Mogadishu, not only was Mohammed Aideed never captured, but the United States later cut a deal with him.

All that heroism, all that blood, all that pain, all that suffering was for nothing. It accomplished nothing, nada, zero and zip.

Maybe you think that after Saddam Hussein is gone, everyone will live happily ever after, but it will be the same. Nothing will change. No liberal democracy is going to bloom in the ancient desert of old Babylonia. No American will be able to say "I'm safer and freer now" because those young people died in Iraq. No Iraqi standing in the rubble is going to say, "Gee, I'm glad the Americans got rid of Saddam by destroying my home and my family." All this war is going to accomplish is to add to the world's store of misery -- more death, more wounded, more destruction, more debt, more poverty, more hatred, and more terrorism.

Not to mention the suffering of Iraqis -- their young boys, their children, mothers, fathers and grandfathers. You saw how Americans ran terrified from the collapse of the towers in New York. Imagine what it's like to be in a city that is being bombarded with 2,000-pound bombs, cruise missiles, artillery and Gatling guns. Imagine trying to save your children in such a mad inferno. Imagine what it would be like to see your children torn into ragged, bloody chunks of meat by shrapnel, or burned into a twisted piece of charcoal, with wet, yellow intestines leaking out. It's pure hell to be the collateral damage. But sit back and enjoy your war. It's what you want.

posted by Hal 9:00 PM