The Israeli government targets civilians. Sharon is one evil dude. Arafat's trouble, too. I'm sad that Abbas was defeated.
I'm sure there were terrorists in Iraq before the illegal invasion. There are terrorists everywhere. It's their job to be everywhere. There are probably even terrorists here in New Zealand. That's not a reason to invade a country, of course, and the US never pretended it was. The US gave one reason for invasion: disarmament. But once the invasion began, knowing that there were no weapons, the US publicity machine pumped out a different word over and over: liberation. So by the end of it, even though the whole thing was a total embarrassment, a horrible blemish in the history of the world, a complete failure in the terms of the goals (disarmament justifies illegal invasion), the US public had been brought around to the misconception that the goal was to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam.
Saddam was considered evil, you see, because of the things he had done while the US put him into power, and the things the US had let him do with chemical weapons that the US sold to him.
No doubt some Iraqi people are angry enough about their country being taken over by people from the other side of the world who don't speak their language and didn't even bother to have a real reason for invading... angry enough to fight back against big, overwhelming powers in the only way that works - guerilla and terrorist tactics. The US Army is a big, strong bear, who can beat up smaller bears, but doesn't have much luck stopping a swarm of bees from stinging it repeatedly.
And yes, now Iraq is becoming a meeting ground for terrorists. Firstly, because things are disordered over there. Secondly, because it's easy to hire Shi'ite fundamentalists into your group when they've just had their family killed by errant US/UK missiles or gunfire, or had their Shi'ite flag shot to pieces by a US gunship.
There was never any question that the world would look back on this invasion as one of the US' greatest mistakes.
But has Halliburton set up shop yet?
I'm sure there were terrorists in Iraq before the illegal invasion. There are terrorists everywhere. It's their job to be everywhere. There are probably even terrorists here in New Zealand. That's not a reason to invade a country, of course, and the US never pretended it was. The US gave one reason for invasion: disarmament. But once the invasion began, knowing that there were no weapons, the US publicity machine pumped out a different word over and over: liberation. So by the end of it, even though the whole thing was a total embarrassment, a horrible blemish in the history of the world, a complete failure in the terms of the goals (disarmament justifies illegal invasion), the US public had been brought around to the misconception that the goal was to liberate the Iraqi people from Saddam.
Saddam was considered evil, you see, because of the things he had done while the US put him into power, and the things the US had let him do with chemical weapons that the US sold to him.
No doubt some Iraqi people are angry enough about their country being taken over by people from the other side of the world who don't speak their language and didn't even bother to have a real reason for invading... angry enough to fight back against big, overwhelming powers in the only way that works - guerilla and terrorist tactics. The US Army is a big, strong bear, who can beat up smaller bears, but doesn't have much luck stopping a swarm of bees from stinging it repeatedly.
And yes, now Iraq is becoming a meeting ground for terrorists. Firstly, because things are disordered over there. Secondly, because it's easy to hire Shi'ite fundamentalists into your group when they've just had their family killed by errant US/UK missiles or gunfire, or had their Shi'ite flag shot to pieces by a US gunship.
There was never any question that the world would look back on this invasion as one of the US' greatest mistakes.
But has Halliburton set up shop yet?
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