Kodiak's response:
To:cnyndwllr who wrote (21433)
From: kodiak_bull Wednesday, Apr 9, 2003 1:06 PM
View Replies (1) | Respond to of 21438
Ed,
The reason for the smallish crowds is very simple and I'm surprised a smart fella like you can't figure it out for yourself. Hokay, I'll help you:
1) 30 years of killing people, anybody, who didn't want to kiss Saddam's armpit (not kidding here);
2) Relatives put in plastic shredders;
3) Uday and Ackass-Jay, Saddam's heirs apparent (which, see, Kim Jong-il and North Koreastan), who were honing their torture skills to give the Iraqis another 40 years of public organ amputation and plastic shredder work;
4) No electricity and no TV for several days in Baghdad--the city of 5 million (maybe 3 million since many fled to the countryside) simply didn't know anything about what was going on, no FOX TV, nada--they are still wholly dependent on word- and shout-of-mouth;
5) There are still shots being fired and fedayeen around; if I were an Iraqi and even had a satellite TV and KNEW what was going on, I'd still keep myself and my family at home with the shades drawn for another 3 days. After 30 years, what's 3 more days?
At some point, Ed, you and everyone else who is stuck in the Vietnam era (Nicholas Kristoff of the NYT who can't write "US Military" without writing "quagmire" in the same sentence) will have to quit analyzing the last war. To wit: War DOES NOT EQUAL Vietnam. GWB has in less than 2 years liberated 50 million Muslims, put 6 million Afghani girls back in school, given 13 million Afghani women the choice of wearing a burkha or not without having the consequence of that decision end with a bullet to the brain.
I know that Vietnam traumatized this country and traumatized the individuals who fought there, but it has made very lazy journalists out of those who seek to analyze the 21st century.
As for those Iraqis who are holding out, what do you think the fate of the Baathist Party is for people who tortured and killed Iraqis for 30 years, in some of the most gruesome and cowardly ways imaginable?
Ed, at some point you will need to give it a rest. I suggest now is a great time. I don't mean this in a personal, antagonistic way, but you have just seen the greatest military victory in a century, at the least cost of life, and hope granted to an entire nation which had despaired for 3 decades under a murderer's ax.
Yr pal,
GO USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA,
Kb |
