Rice Tells U.N. to Keep Pressure
“It is time for this to end, enough is enough,” Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, said today.
Face it, the majority of the world believes our illegitimate government to be on the wrong side of this debate. Do we open discourse? Do we examine ourselves and our motives? No! We threaten! We use fighting words! We ignore everyone but those who agree with us. It's ridiculous.
Because, you know, you can't send 200,000 troops to some region and not use them, right?
Fucking armchair generals and cowboy monkeyboys with power. Never has the lack of democracy in this country been made more readily apparent. Over 60% of the people do not want war now. Over 4 million people demonstrated yesterday against a war. In America, alone. But do you expect a non-elected government to listen to the people? Of course not. We're totally invading in 2 weeks or so. I hope the Israelis are ready for Iraq's attacks. I hope we're ready for significant losses in urban fighting. I hope we're ready for a new generation of terrorists. I hope we're ready to be kicked out of the region with our tails between our legs when our “statebuilding” plans go awry and the natives kick us out. What a nightmare.
Mark my words, this will become one of the biggest negative marks in American history, right up there with both Cuban adventures, the Jim Crow laws, internment camps, the Mexican and Phillipine imperialism, and Disney. This is not a Just War. And I'm not saying that because I disagree with it. Any invasion by the US of Iraq, now, has absolutely no support in Just War theory. I'm still working on my essay for that, but plainly put we will be in the wrong. Feh.