Re: Reality TV at its best!
> "Reality TV"? You're treating war as entertainment.
> A bit sickening, really.
No, sorry, not sickening at all. It was extraordinary, historical events happening live before my eyes, with the revolutionary "embedded journalist" system alowing me to see it unfold. And it was ABOSLUTELY HILARIOUS and, yes, entertaining to watch the split-screen with the Iraqi Info Minister on the left, telling us America was suffering horrible defeat and was nowhere near there, and our soldier's hanging out and celebrating at Saddam's palace on the right. As well, it was wonderful to see the statue get blown up, and satisfying to hear of Chemical Ali's death.
Is it wrong to laugh along as our troops went through Saddam's palace and used his showers? I think not. There was a sad aspect to it, of course. To see the riches in that palace - the gold and the marble - and to consider how that barbarian was purposely letting his people suffer to defy the United NAtions sanctions, makes ME ill.
It makes me even more ill is to think about all the bullshit the anti-war people spewed for months, considering how everything Bush and Blair have said about Saddam's regime are being proved absolutely 100% true each and every day during this war.
Oh, btw, NPR is saying they've found chemical weapons today. GAME SET & MATCH, baby. Now I know you and most rational people already understood such weapons existed in Iraq, despite Hans Blix's bumbling idiocy. But plenty of people were going on and on with crap like, "Why haven't you found WMDs yet? Was that all lies and propaganda?"
A great day for America and the rest of the Coalition, who can be proud of sticking to their guns and doing what's right. A great day for the Iraqi and Kurdish peoples, who can look forward to a new future and build a new country. An awful day for the Leave-Saddam-Alone "anti-war" protestors, sitting on the wrong side of history.
And when the anti-war protestors are done explaining why they should have any credibility left, how about they start to weed out all the racists in their ranks:
http://dynamic.washtimes.com/twt-print.cfm?ArticleID=20030406-91545848
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Noam Levy, a 24-year-old French Jew, was beaten with an iron bar as he took part in a Paris protest and needed several stitches to his head.
"As a Jew, I now know that I do not have a place in the antiwar protests," he said. "I was shocked by the comparison of the state of Israel to the Nazis and by anti-Zionist slogans."
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