Moominpapa (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} moominpapa) wrote,@ 2004-01-25 10:41:00 |
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Hi there, I helped your children die.
I'm baffled. If I went on tv and announced that I was going to be giving away nuggets of gold to anyone who wanted one, you'd expect to see, very quickly, a line of people outside my house that stretched for miles, right? That's a no-brainer, an utterly predictable result following my announcement.
Yet here we have Colin Powell saying to the world that well, yeah, there might not have been any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all (see here) and I sit back in gleeful expectation that every single American who has a family member serving in the military overseas will head to Washington and demand Powell's head on a platter (along with the heads of the other members of the Chimp's adminstration) but instead I see nothing. No news reports about angry crowds of veterans and soldiers' families blocking the steps of the Capitol, screaming for justice.
Excuse me, but WTF is wrong with you people? Are your brains so rotted from television that you have forgotten Powell at the United Nations, presenting his "evidence" about the WMD? That's why US servicemen and women went over there, remember? all those nasty weapons that the administration "knew" Iraq had? That's why lots of American pilots, most of whom are probably very decent men and women who love their kids and their dogs, dropped cluster bombs and cruise missiles on cities, towns and villages, remember? That's why Iraqi families have been shot up in their cars at US checkpoints, why reporters have been killed by tankfire, remember? And it's why every week some more US soldiers get killed, or get their legs blown off, or their arms, or their faces - stuff that makes it hard for the kids and the dogs when those soldiers get back home, all done because Iraq had these weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them against America, remember? Remember the scorn and contempt that was poured on people who doubted the administration? Anyone with more than two brain cells knew that not only was the administration's "evidence" pathetic, but that the idea of Iraq posing the slightest threat to America was the stupidest thing they had ever heard. But oh how the Republicans and their media lapdogs shrieked - you had to support America! support the President! the mad Muslims were ready to unleash chemical/nuclear/biological hell upon God's country! Anyone who questioned the administration was a traitor! There was no time to wait for the UN inspectors to continue looking for the WMD, there was no time to lose! Disaster for America was imminent! The US had to invade! US soldiers had to be put in harm's way and Iraqi citizens had to be cluster bombed, to save America from the weapons of mass destruction!!!!
And now? Well yeah, says Colin, actually there might not have been any weapons like that after all.
Why was I not kept awake all night by the outraged screams of Americans? Why aren't people whose kids got blown out of their Humvees in some Baghdad street not piling into cars and buses and trains and heading for Washington or storming the major network news studios and demanding the instant resignation of this administration followed by their prosecution for crimes against humanity?
I have to ask again, because I truly am baffled by the silence: WTF is wrong with you people?
I'm baffled. If I went on tv and announced that I was going to be giving away nuggets of gold to anyone who wanted one, you'd expect to see, very quickly, a line of people outside my house that stretched for miles, right? That's a no-brainer, an utterly predictable result following my announcement.
Yet here we have Colin Powell saying to the world that well, yeah, there might not have been any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after all (see here) and I sit back in gleeful expectation that every single American who has a family member serving in the military overseas will head to Washington and demand Powell's head on a platter (along with the heads of the other members of the Chimp's adminstration) but instead I see nothing. No news reports about angry crowds of veterans and soldiers' families blocking the steps of the Capitol, screaming for justice.
Excuse me, but WTF is wrong with you people? Are your brains so rotted from television that you have forgotten Powell at the United Nations, presenting his "evidence" about the WMD? That's why US servicemen and women went over there, remember? all those nasty weapons that the administration "knew" Iraq had? That's why lots of American pilots, most of whom are probably very decent men and women who love their kids and their dogs, dropped cluster bombs and cruise missiles on cities, towns and villages, remember? That's why Iraqi families have been shot up in their cars at US checkpoints, why reporters have been killed by tankfire, remember? And it's why every week some more US soldiers get killed, or get their legs blown off, or their arms, or their faces - stuff that makes it hard for the kids and the dogs when those soldiers get back home, all done because Iraq had these weapons of mass destruction and was ready to use them against America, remember? Remember the scorn and contempt that was poured on people who doubted the administration? Anyone with more than two brain cells knew that not only was the administration's "evidence" pathetic, but that the idea of Iraq posing the slightest threat to America was the stupidest thing they had ever heard. But oh how the Republicans and their media lapdogs shrieked - you had to support America! support the President! the mad Muslims were ready to unleash chemical/nuclear/biological hell upon God's country! Anyone who questioned the administration was a traitor! There was no time to wait for the UN inspectors to continue looking for the WMD, there was no time to lose! Disaster for America was imminent! The US had to invade! US soldiers had to be put in harm's way and Iraqi citizens had to be cluster bombed, to save America from the weapons of mass destruction!!!!
And now? Well yeah, says Colin, actually there might not have been any weapons like that after all.
Why was I not kept awake all night by the outraged screams of Americans? Why aren't people whose kids got blown out of their Humvees in some Baghdad street not piling into cars and buses and trains and heading for Washington or storming the major network news studios and demanding the instant resignation of this administration followed by their prosecution for crimes against humanity?
I have to ask again, because I truly am baffled by the silence: WTF is wrong with you people?
