Wolfowitz
...doesn't seem to get it, that the student is referring to the period 1983-1990 when the US was a close ally of Saddam's, when it authorized the sale of chemical and biological precursors to Saddam, when it had the US navy function essentially as an auxiliary of Saddam's military.
Either he didn't get it or he was using misdirection to shift attention away from his own former alliance with Saddam (I wonder if he's managed to have all those files shredded?)
That is bad enough. But then he said, "It seems to me that the north star of your comment is that you dislike this country and its policies." And you know, I want to puke at a statement like that. Objecting to the Bush administration's policies is not the same as to "dislike this country."
�Juan Cole 11.02.03
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...doesn't seem to get it, that the student is referring to the period 1983-1990 when the US was a close ally of Saddam's, when it authorized the sale of chemical and biological precursors to Saddam, when it had the US navy function essentially as an auxiliary of Saddam's military.
Either he didn't get it or he was using misdirection to shift attention away from his own former alliance with Saddam (I wonder if he's managed to have all those files shredded?)
That is bad enough. But then he said, "It seems to me that the north star of your comment is that you dislike this country and its policies." And you know, I want to puke at a statement like that. Objecting to the Bush administration's policies is not the same as to "dislike this country."
�Juan Cole 11.02.03
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Ω{Atrios of Eschaton does this much better, more concisely than I can, but it's vital, it has to be done soon, the vocabulary must be created, these men given a new name, and their devices exposed for what they are, tricks, deceptions, ultimately lies that kill.
Imagine aliens who could camoflage themselves as children; and not as generic children, your children.
Come home to you and tell you about their day, wake up to pancakes on Saturday morning, help you mow the lawn. And the whole time they're pretending to be your children they're going around the neighborhood killing people and eating them.
You can't raise your hand against them because they're your children. Not until you make that break. In order to stop them, you have to redefine them out of the family.
We have to stop seeing Wolfowitz and his scum-brethren as Americans, they're not. The tension created, between the rejection of any connection with them, and the sense of being an American, is crippling.
As long as Wolfowitz is an American, either I'm with him or I'm not an American.
No.
They may live in America, but they are another thing, an as-yet nameless thing, and they hide behind that namelessness, using the names of the things we love as their own.
So that to attack them where they hide is to attack America. But it isn't.
It's attacking them, to stop them, not America.
This is happening to Jews as well. The same way. Hiding behind a definition of what it is to be a Jew, so that to attack them is to attack all Jews, men whose true nature goes undefined.
It's the same deceit, the same scam.
These alien, opportunistic, manipulative evil men who would sacrifice everything high and good about human existence to further their own narrow colorless lives.}
Imagine aliens who could camoflage themselves as children; and not as generic children, your children.
Come home to you and tell you about their day, wake up to pancakes on Saturday morning, help you mow the lawn. And the whole time they're pretending to be your children they're going around the neighborhood killing people and eating them.
You can't raise your hand against them because they're your children. Not until you make that break. In order to stop them, you have to redefine them out of the family.
We have to stop seeing Wolfowitz and his scum-brethren as Americans, they're not. The tension created, between the rejection of any connection with them, and the sense of being an American, is crippling.
As long as Wolfowitz is an American, either I'm with him or I'm not an American.
No.
They may live in America, but they are another thing, an as-yet nameless thing, and they hide behind that namelessness, using the names of the things we love as their own.
So that to attack them where they hide is to attack America. But it isn't.
It's attacking them, to stop them, not America.
This is happening to Jews as well. The same way. Hiding behind a definition of what it is to be a Jew, so that to attack them is to attack all Jews, men whose true nature goes undefined.
It's the same deceit, the same scam.
These alien, opportunistic, manipulative evil men who would sacrifice everything high and good about human existence to further their own narrow colorless lives.}
