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Originally posted by Joeaksa
Randy,
Do not listen to the crap that some jerk above says. He does not realize that he has free speech today because of soldiers like this who have fought and died for his rights in the past.
Joe A
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Read a piece this morning Joe, and I thought of you and your spittle flecked mates. After all, Ive seen you wheel out every mantra mentioned, (plus a few more not mentioned) as soon as FOX hands them down to you.
Ive posted just the first few paras for you- I doubt you would read any further- but here is the link JIC:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/whod-gloat-about-it/2006/12/22/1166290741946.html
Who'd gloat about it?
Shaun Carney
December 23, 2006
SINCE American voters handed control of the Congress to President George Bush's political opponents last month — making the failure of the invasion and occupation of Iraq even more difficult to deny — some of the most vocal advocates of that military adventure have adopted a new mantra.
This has replaced previous mantras, which include the pre-invasion likening of all sceptics to appeasers of Hitler in the '30s, the immediate post-invasion demands for all sceptics to apologise because the defeat of Saddam had taken only a few weeks and the 2004-05 insistence that occupied Iraq was really a good news story that a twisted media refused to report.
The latest mantra, now that it's clear the whole enterprise is a frightening mess, is: stop gloating. At first blush, this last-ditch attempt to stifle reason and dissent — after four years of accusing anyone with a different opinion of being a terrorist sympathiser — seems utterly ridiculous. The first time I saw it in print, accompanied by the declaration that the pretext used for going into Iraq was now irrelevant and did not warrant discussion, I did wonder whether I had entered some sort of comic-book bizarro world.
But on another level, the "stop gloating" admonition does make some sense, because the truth is that a cock-up of this scale was not foreseen; few opponents of the war could ever have imagined that the occupation would have gone this badly. That the US-led coalition would get bogged down — sure, there were predictions of that.
But the death counts contained in the accompanying graphic (above), taken from new figures released by the Pentagon, are almost beyond belief. After all, this was the world's most powerful country taking over a relatively piddly nation run by a nut who was hated by many of his fellow citizens. America had to have had a plan for the occupation, and not just a plan, but a good one, backed up by several other plans that could be pulled out if the previous one didn't work.
Turned out there was only one plan, which has produced a disaster. And America has the great misfortune to be led by a man unburdened by imagination and creativity, and possessed of a powerful capacity to avoid reality.