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Who'd gloat about it?
The Age Austrailia
Sean Carney
December 23,2006
SINCE American voters handed control of the Congress to President George Bush's political opponents last month — making the failure of the invasion and occupation of Iraq even more difficult to deny — some of the most vocal advocates of that military adventure have adopted a new mantra.
This has replaced previous mantras, which include the pre-invasion likening of all sceptics to appeasers of Hitler in the '30s, the immediate post-invasion demands for all sceptics to apologise because the defeat of Saddam had taken only a few weeks and the 2004-05 insistence that occupied Iraq was really a good news story that a twisted media refused to report.
The latest mantra, now that it's clear the whole enterprise is a frightening mess, is: stop gloating. At first blush, this last-ditch attempt to stifle reason and dissent — after four years of accusing anyone with a different opinion of being a terrorist sympathiser — seems utterly ridiculous. The first time I saw it in print, accompanied by the declaration that the pretext used for going into Iraq was now irrelevant and did not warrant disvion, did wonder whether I had entered some sort of comic-book bizarro world.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/whod-gloat-about-it/2006/12/22/1166290741946.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2Other articles:
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Why George Bush's Greatest Fear May Well Come to Pass
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The Invaders 'Know They are Hated'
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The Americans 'Must Get Out' of Iraq
http://www.watchingamerica.com/lajornada000059.shtmlLots of articles at: www.watchingamerica.com
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