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What would a real American do?
by
Sean O'Clast
Is this controversial?
If a foreign army were in America for any reason Americans would
exercise their inalienable right to kill off the foreigners. It does not
matter what their reason for killing the foreigners. It could be patriotism
or simply for sport. To hunt man is considered the greatest challenge.
Is this controversial?
It should not come as any surprise to Americans that Iraqis have the
same inalienable right.
If we take it one step further we can reasonably assume Iraqis have
listened to translations of President Bush saying we are fighting terrorists
in Iraq so we do not have to fight them in America. So Iraqis have heard him
saying the US is turning Iraq into a battleground for its own benefit. If
that self-serving, damn the Iraqis reason does not inspire a reason to kill
Americans in Iraq I can't think of anything that would.
Rather than just for sport or policy they have a concrete reason to
kill Americans at any and every opportunity. If they were in my country and
they were here to make my country their battleground to protect their
country damned right I would kill them even if I were not interested in the
sport of hunting man.
But when I start killing them, how can they tell me from their
terrorist enemy from just a very upset local from an exotic sportsman? How
can the Bushites tell a terrorist from a sporting human hunter from a killer
for Bush's own stated reasons?
I do not see a thing controversial in anything I have said so far.
Every citizen of every country has the right to kill off foreign invaders.
It is as simple as that. It is the very premise of the US militia and
standing army.
So lets shatter another icon. In 2003 the Iraqi army did its
patriotic duty in defending Iraq from an unprovoked invasion. Therefore they
were all murdered doing their duty. This is not a debate on anything Bush
said or believed or his justification. This is simply the fact from the
Iraqi point of view. It should be the point of view of everyone who is not
an American. They were defending their country and they were murdered by the
invaders. They were not merely killed. They were murdered.
Murder may sound harsh but they were killed for no fault of their
own while doing their duty. It is the same a killing a night watchman. It is
clearly murder.
Another icon is that Americans have died in Iraq defending our
freedoms. It is difficult to see how the imagination can be stretched far
enough to make this plausible. Iraq was no threat to our freedom. Defending
our freedom is a slogan that worked in the first and second world wars and
got us into Korea and Vietnam. Americans have not fought for their freedom
since 1776.
We can disagree all we want over everything but Iraq. Iraq never in
any way threatened our freedom therefore no American died in Iraq defending
our freedom. As there was no defense of our freedom there was clearly no
defense of the US. One has to ask after the average intelligence of the US
military if they really believe what Bush says. We have to question the
intelligence of anyone who believes it.
Do the troops really believe it? In WWII we reveled in the idea of
the draftees razzing (giving the raspberry to) the gung ho speeches by the
officers. Blood and Guts Patton: His guts our blood. Who led the bloody
slaughter while MacArthur walked on water? (The United States Marines.)
When did we forget this? Does some network have to do a M*A*S*H
marathon? We lost in Vietnam. How we lost it is immaterial. We are doing
nothing different in Iraq. Therefore we will lose in Iraq.
Lose?!!?? How dare I say that?! I agree I can't say that because I
have no idea in the world what we are there to win and Bush can't give the
same reason twice in a row. The latest reason is right out of Chairman Mao,
Democracy blooms from the barrel of a gun.
It is interesting that the US wants to export our democracy, a
system that is clearly money dependent from the cost of winning an election
to the special legislation for contributors. It does not make sense the
voters of any other country would want it unless they plan a career in
politics to collect the spoils. I would not vote for the US system if given
a choice. I would vote for a system where accepting campaign contributions
is a hanging offense.
And it is impossible for Americans to connect with the democratic
system in Iraq. There was an election but no one voted for any person. They
only voted for lists of people. The people who controlled the lists
determined who got a seat in parliament. I don't know about you but if I
can't vote for a person I have no problem considering the government
revolting.
And of course we are fighting for Iraqi freedom. Freedom from whom?
Their fellow Iraqis? We freed Iraqis from Hussein the Iraqi. That does not
compute. Clearly the Iraqi people have sufficient firepower and ability to
have gotten rid of Hussein if they had wanted to do so. They can run ragged
140,000 of the best troops in the world. They could certainly have dealt
with Hussein and his pissant army.
It appears rather Iraqis knew what would happen without Hussein in
power and refrained from taking him out. They knew the current mess would be
the consequence.
I think I have "clasted" all the major icons of this Iraq war. There
are dozens of little ones left but as Bush as dropped all of them from his
list of lies to get us into this war it would be redundant to address them.
If there is something I have missed, let me know.
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