The war in Iraq
- November 11th, 2006
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I rarely talk about political issues. I find the topic to generally lead to argumentative, irrational and often downright hostile responses from otherwise normal functional thinking adults. So why am I talking about it now? Well, because on Friday nights we go to “Happy Hour”, and after a couple drinks I sometimes let myself get pulled into conversations that I would normally avoid. To add insult to injury, in this state of impaired judgment my ability to debate in an effective manner is impaired as well 
So, since I basically opened my mouth last night and stuck my foot in there, I’ll publicly defend and restate my position on a couple things.
People (especially Democrats) want to blame Bush for everything under the sun. Bush caused everything from islamic jihadists to global warming. I honestly couldn’t tell you of one single thing that Bush has done that I would call a “good thing”, but there might be one or two. We all know he’s not upholding the Constitution at all, and that he’s got plenty of Orwell’ian laws to his credit (the Patriot Act for instance), and his single biggest fuck up, the occupation of Iraq.
And this brings me to the point of last night’s conversation. The thing that sticks out in my mind about last night’s conversation is this. Discussing Clinton’s whole perjury thing, the comment was made that “at least his crimes didn’t kill 300,000 people”… That’s true. Clinton has a number closer to the millions.
See, here’s what a lot of people don’t know, or don’t mention, about Iraq and Osama bin Laden. Back in 1979, the Soviet Union was pissing in everyone’s cheerios. The thing that we’re concerned about though, is their invasion of Afghanistan.
When the Soviets were invading, the muslims in Afghanistan declared jihad. That’s where we come in. The CIA started pouring money, training and weapons into the madrasahs in Pakistan. Why? Well, because they wanted to get enough muslim radicals together to bring down the U.S.S.R. while sitting back and watching the fireworks.
In March of 1985, we know that President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 166. We won’t know exactly what’s in there (it’s classified), but what we do know is that after that directive was signed, our arms shipments to Pakistan’s ISI steadily increased to about 65,000 tons anually by 1987. CIA and Pentagon specialists traveled to the secret headquarters of Pakistan’s ISI on the main road near Rawalpindi, Pakistan in a “ceaseless stream” to help the Pakisanis plan operations for the Afghan rebels.
Predominant themes were that Islam was a complete socio-political ideology, that holy Islam was being violated by the atheistic Soviet troops, and that the Islamic people of Afghanistan should reassert their independence by overthrowing the leftist Afghan regime propped up by Moscow.
Dilip Hiro, Fallout from the Afghan Jihad, Inter Press Services, 21 November 1995.
The point? Well, you see … The CIA created the very force that the president now says we’re fighting against. This raises the question – “Why would a group that we’ve had control of for years suddenly decide to bite the hand that feeds?”
And a good question it is. Assuming you don’t buy into the idea that the government was responsible for the attacks on September 11th (despite the pile of evidence showing what they had to gain by orchestrating the whole thing), what would be another reason for a group of trained military fighters halfway around the world to attack the US?
When Daddy Bush decided to go to war in the gulf, the UN imposed very heavy trade restrictions and such to “soften up” Sadaam. Yeah … It really worked. Of course, after Bush Sr. got what he wanted, he left Sadaam right there in power and told him to be a good boy. Did the UN repeal the trade restrictions? Nope… and Clinton had no interest in doing it either.
And this is where we get to Clinton’s death tool. You see, when Bush Sr. was running the marines all over the middle east, he made sure to blow up the electric plants, water treatment facilities and whatnot. This left Iraq in a rather nasty position. With truely third world country living conditions and no legal way to import medicine, other than through the “Oil for Food” program, which was really not much help, since it was used pretty exclusively to screw the Iraqi people even more. The media told us that Sadaam kept all the food and things for himself and the people were left to starve, but why would he want to keep rotten food?
The Iraqi people died under Clinton’s watch by the hundreds of thousands.
That’s not the end of course… During the whole fiasco about if he had sexual relations or not to see if he perjured himself or not (we all know he did, and that that’s a felony and that he should be serving time – he even admitted that he was lying on national TV shortly after the trial), he convienently started bombing Iraq to distract everyone’s attention, which led to more deaths.
I can hear you now … “No no no … he did that because Iraq wasn’t cooperating with the UN weapons inspectors!” … sure, and my poop comes out purple and smells like rainbow sorbet.
Fact: the UNSCOM inspectors were not kicked out of Iraq in December 1998 by Saddam — President Clinton had UNSCOM chief Richard Butler pull out the UN inspectors so he could bomb. United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was understandably angry that Clinton ordered out not just the U.S. inspectors, but all United Nations inspectors (which he had no authority to do).
But hey – I guess that was ok since he got to remain in office and do more great things for the American people… What were those again?
My point is this – I know Bush is a rampaging moron with the tact and morals of a boulder crashing down a mountain rolling over little children, but don’t sit there and tell me that “Slick Willy” was a any better. They’re all the most corrupt people on the face of the earth. The only thing that matters to people in power is staying there at all costs.
THEY ARE NOT THERE TO HELP YOU! THEY ARE THERE TO KEEP YOU COMPLACENT ENOUGH SO THAT YOU KEEP WORKING AND MAKING THEM RICHER!
And if you’re not on board with them, well, they’ll bomb you, starve you, or bankrupt you until you either drink their flavor of Kool-Aid, or you die.
Don’t blame me … I vote third party. Maybe it is a “wasted vote” but the thought of voting for either of the two main parties makes my physically ill.
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