I'm tired of these things:
"Iraqi civilians". That phrase makes them a military thing, it's a military description, as though they were soldiers in a different army - the army of civilians. It's as though "we" aren't civilians, we're looking at them through military eyes.
I can't analyze it more accurately than that, but I can feel it, it means they aren't really people. But they are. These are innocent men women and children, no different than the children who died at Beslan, or the men and women who died in the World Trade Center.
And the liberal or Democratic stance that our being, the US military being in Iraq is a "mistake". This is a mistake that has killed thousands of Iraqi men women and children. Mistake seems just a little weak as a descriptor.
And the logic that stops right after it's a "mistake". Because if it was a mistake, if it is a mistake, then those thousands of men women and children didn't need to die, should not have died, were murdered.
The initial logical train was: Saddam has WMD's, poses a threat, must be removed. Setting aside the deception at the heart of that, and the lies that cover it, setting aside the complete absence of Israel in any of the talk surrounding Saddam and WMD's, just look at the outcome. We've killed thousands, tens of thousands of innocent people in this country, Iraq.
Not soldiers, not "insurgents", not "militias", though we have killed thousands of them, but women and children and men going about the business of their very hard lives, innocently, non-combatively. We've killed them because they were in our way, because we had a more important goal. This is the same logic we denounce as heartless when it's used by those who would kill innocent Americans, terrorists shedding innocent blood. Zealots. Madmen.
We have done to them what we justified invading their country to prevent.
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John Kerry is not going to account for this, he is not going to answer for it, and he isn't going to make amends for it.
It isn't a mistake, it's a crime. It's mass murder. And the men who are fighting in Iraq, the Iraqis themselves, resisting with everything they have, are in the right. No amount of patriotism can disguise that, no love, no loyalty to country or family or God, can change that.
There is no way back from this with honor, and there is no way forward with honor, and there is no "staying the course" with honor.
If it is a mistake - and I don't think it is, I think it's intentional, and I think the present condition of Iraq, a broken destabilized, vulnerable, powerless nation, was exactly the purpose all along - but if it is a mistake, as so many people seem to think, then what? Do we apologize?
How do we apologize for the deaths of thousands of innocent people? How is that done?
"Iraqi civilians". That phrase makes them a military thing, it's a military description, as though they were soldiers in a different army - the army of civilians. It's as though "we" aren't civilians, we're looking at them through military eyes.
I can't analyze it more accurately than that, but I can feel it, it means they aren't really people. But they are. These are innocent men women and children, no different than the children who died at Beslan, or the men and women who died in the World Trade Center.
And the liberal or Democratic stance that our being, the US military being in Iraq is a "mistake". This is a mistake that has killed thousands of Iraqi men women and children. Mistake seems just a little weak as a descriptor.
And the logic that stops right after it's a "mistake". Because if it was a mistake, if it is a mistake, then those thousands of men women and children didn't need to die, should not have died, were murdered.
The initial logical train was: Saddam has WMD's, poses a threat, must be removed. Setting aside the deception at the heart of that, and the lies that cover it, setting aside the complete absence of Israel in any of the talk surrounding Saddam and WMD's, just look at the outcome. We've killed thousands, tens of thousands of innocent people in this country, Iraq.
Not soldiers, not "insurgents", not "militias", though we have killed thousands of them, but women and children and men going about the business of their very hard lives, innocently, non-combatively. We've killed them because they were in our way, because we had a more important goal. This is the same logic we denounce as heartless when it's used by those who would kill innocent Americans, terrorists shedding innocent blood. Zealots. Madmen.
We have done to them what we justified invading their country to prevent.
-
John Kerry is not going to account for this, he is not going to answer for it, and he isn't going to make amends for it.
It isn't a mistake, it's a crime. It's mass murder. And the men who are fighting in Iraq, the Iraqis themselves, resisting with everything they have, are in the right. No amount of patriotism can disguise that, no love, no loyalty to country or family or God, can change that.
There is no way back from this with honor, and there is no way forward with honor, and there is no "staying the course" with honor.
If it is a mistake - and I don't think it is, I think it's intentional, and I think the present condition of Iraq, a broken destabilized, vulnerable, powerless nation, was exactly the purpose all along - but if it is a mistake, as so many people seem to think, then what? Do we apologize?
How do we apologize for the deaths of thousands of innocent people? How is that done?
