Saddam, So Not Worth It

[chiburb]

(Note to Mods: This is NOT a dupe of an earlier Morford post, it's a full column, hot off the presses (virtually speaking)...

Snip:

The capture does not justify the savagery, nor the humiliation. Not by a long shot. The ends do not justify the means. Nor do they justify the staggering, steaming pile of BushCo lies about why we went to war in the first place.

Remember those? Remember how not one single motive BushCo gave for launching this insane war has actually been proven true? Does this even matter anymore, the string of falsehoods and treasonous fabrications? Apparently not. This is America's biggest wonder, and its ugliest flaw: a nasty short-term memory.


But whatever. Most lockstep Americans do not care that Saddam was never a threat. Most do not care about how many Iraqi children have died, or that in just the first days of the war, U.S. forces killed far more innocent civilians than were killed by those non-Iraqi terrorists in the WTC (4,300, to be more specific). Most do not care that the other 25 despotic heads of state out there right now who are far worse than Saddam are not, apparently, quaking in their dictatorial boots.

Most Americans do not care that somewhere, Osama is probably cheering (hey, he hated Saddam, too). They do not care that, what with our outward display of savagery, new America-loathing terrorists are being spawned faster than BushCo's war machine can possibly keep up with them.

Read the whole thing here:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/12/17/notes121703.DTL&nl=fix

[BlueEyedSon]

1. $5,000 Ice Cream Cone.

That's what Saddam is. Nice to have, absolutely insane to have at the price.

Oh, and guess who's paying?

[priller]

2. It's true, bin Laden must be lovin' it!

Bush is doing his work for him. Osama could yammer on for years about American imperialists and zionists and all that, and many listeners could wonder if he was just full of it; but now they has a real live example for all to see, in all its hideous glory. Now all Osama has to do is point his finger and say, "Look! What did I tell you?"

[jbfam4]

3. thanks for posting

The last paragraph is excellent.

"After all, Saddam's not the only dreadful world leader who's abused his allies, ravaged his economy, launched two blood-drenched wars in as many years, authorized the bombing of tens of thousands, allowed hundreds of U.S. soldiers to die, cut the benefits of war veterans, poisoned the environment, invoked the name of God to justify it all and smirked away every notion of his obvious ineptitude. Can we send Special Forces to the Oval Office now? "