June 04, 2006
Punish Bush for Haditha (by helping to destroy Iraq)
by Jeremy...get your 'Ghosts of Haditha' t-shirts and bumper stickers.
Of course the fascist-friendly sector of the American Left is not alone in its campaign to leverage the suffering of Iraqis to help deliver them from Haditha to Haditha, or from Abu Ghraib under the Coalition to the 'peacetime' Abu Ghraib. People who commit atrocities in Iraq -- including what must be a small but cancerous percentage of rogue U.S. soldiers -- are working to advance the same unthinkable outcome.
But the left is (one liked to think) supposed to be on the right side of wars against fascism.
Anyhow, Robert Dreyfuss has a fun idea:
Permit, if you will, a devilish comparison. Saddam Hussein, at present, is on trial for his role in the alleged murder of dozens of residents of a small Iraqi city. In the wake of an attempted assassination of Saddam by members of the (now ruling) Dawa party of Iraq, Iraqi forces under Saddam’s command reportedly murdered men and young boys. In Haditha, in the wake of a roadside bomb that killed a Marine, other Marines—under the command of George W. Bush—reportedly murdered dozens, including children and babies. Perhaps, when the Saddam trial is over, Ramsey Clark will have a new client?
And perhaps something should be done about Barbara and Jenna who have been torturing, raping, shooting people, feeding them to tigers, tossing them into industrial shredders, and who knows what else. And why isn't the U.N. sending a team to the Oval Office to find the lists of hundreds of thousands of names of people that G. W. Bush has exterminated for religious and political crimes?
Robert Dreyfuss is the kind of guy who looks for the silver lining:
The murderous rampage by U.S. Marines in Haditha last November is likely to be remembered a century from now as the emblem of America’s criminal war in Iraq
Maybe he's right -- just as we all now speak of the unjust and illegal war waged by the United States in alliance with Nazi Germany back in the 1940s which, of course, is still going on today (see the section titled 'Hitler's America' to see how the United States has kept the Nazi dream alive).
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