that's so cute, you miss me! and here i thought the board needed a break from me.
> He's probably glued to Fox News lamenting the fact that these stupid
> Iraqis aren't showering the soldiers with flowers and lollies.
Actually, I've been busy with a 30+ page paper I'm doing for my Race, Racism & the Law course, to fulfill one of my final requirements for graduation.
And I'm extremely proud and pleased with the way the war has been going. Nearly perfectly so far. I had been expecting the PAtriot missile defense system to fail, and it hasn't. And I had expected all the oil fields and bridges to be taken out by Saddam, which he failed to pull off. In fact, Saddam may have even failed to survive the first 2 minutes of the war! But I'm trying to stay out of the idiotic debates over every little incident that happens along the way, which are all just about distracting people's eyes from the ball. I don't know if they were aware of it, but I already knew some people were gonna die in a war.
So, as I said the other week, I'm holding my breath and praying Saddam can't pull off some final massive atrocity on his people before the final nail is hammered in his coffin. But so far so good. And the media has the same ridiculous pattern every war, always panicking in week 2 before the good old Americans and British pull it out soon enough thereafter. And I find it humorous that the same people who said we were gonna start WW3, or get caught up in a Viet Nam like quagmire, suddenly have started saying, "How come another ten minutes went by and you haven't won yet?" LOL! As far as how the Iraqi people feel, I'm 100% sure the substantial majority will be quite pleased and relieved to be rid of Saddam, although I wouldn't ever claim to know how they'll feel about anything beyond that. I'm glad that they'll be able to speak for themselves for the first time in decades, thanks to the Coalition. And it is not civilians who are fighting us. In fact, we just rounded up a handful of Iraqi generals and other scumbuckets thanks to the help of some Iraqi civilians.
Oh, I still don't see the hundreds of thousands of innocents being killed by Americans via carpet bombing and MOABs that some of you guys were predicting.
You guys did say that, right? Hundreds of thousands. I know I read it here.
Some people are always wrong and never learn. Someday I hope you'll realize that the reason America invested all that money in precision weaponry was because we don't wanna kill innocent people, and that that gives America a rather distinctive morality in this f***ed up world that we should feel good about. Duh!
Anyway...I taped the USA network's biopic of Rudy Giuliani, starring James Woods, so I'll leave the FOX news coverage alone for another night. Yes, good old Rudy. You know what, he was one of those "right wing fascists," according to the freakish-extremist left wing. A fascist? Hmm. Imagine that. If you wanna reduce crime in New York, you're a fascist! Amazing mentality and logic on the far left, eh. I dunno, Rudy always seemed decent enough to me, so I'm gonna pop some popcorn and watch this flick. Cuz I relate to him far more than I relate to the people who called him names. If Rudy's a "fascist," I guess I am too. And if this war is "Nazi-like," then hell, I guess I am too.
But then, what are these people who are always screaming these silly, fashionable, brainless things about people who are far better than they are? Well, interestingly enough, they sound almost indistinguishable from the ugly, vile rantings of the Iraqi Information Minister whom I've had the misfortune of seeing on IRaqi TV these past couple weeks. If I closed my eyes and wasn't told it was Iraqi TV, I'd think it was one of the so-called "peace protestors" I was hearing. So, yeah, whatever, I feel pretty good with the side I'm on and the people I relate to. Hope you do too.
This morning's newest poll out of France says one out of three French are rooting for Saddam. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-631671,00.html Imagine that. People sure do see things differently in this world. But yeah, I feel pretty good with my side - the side that, um, doesn't think peace and justice is promoted by Saddam winning the war....