Saturday, March 25, 2006
Lies, illegal, all about oil
A Brit discusses the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq war...
Tim Hames, in an UK Times opinion column, writes:
"The e-mail contained rhetoric that has become familiar, though fatuous. It railed against 'lies about weapons of mass destruction', an 'illegal war', 'Abu Ghraib' and the 'expropriation of Iraqi resources'. All the words so often employed about Iraq were there, except, of course, 'Saddam' and 'Hussein'. In any case, the entire episode started in March 2003 was condemned as an 'occupation' that has 'brought nothing to the Iraqi people except ever increasing death and destruction.'"
"'I suppose it depends on how you define 'nothing'. If two elections, one constitutional referendum, a free press, an independent judiciary, greater religious liberty, the lifting of economic sanctions, reintegration into the region and the wider international community count for 'nothing', then nothing is a reasonable assessment. As many leaders of the anti-war movement have nothing but contempt for 'bourgeois democracy' and hate capitalism and its manifestations, then, for them, 'nothing' is entirely accurate."
