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There are cowardly cretins, and then there are cowardly cretins. Received my first issue of Times today. (So it turned out I didn't misplace the order.)
Flip open to page 30, and you have Why Iraq Was a Mistake.
First I thought it was one of those reflections that journalists like to have after incidents. Like, How the Tsunami Could Have Been Prevented, or whatsover, totally useless except to rile up the public. After all, if foresight was 20/20, why do we have wars and all that shit anyway? Hitler would probably remember not to attack an ally. -__-"
Read the whatever-you-call-that-line-under-the-title: 'A U.S. military insider sounds off agains the war and the "zealots" who pushed it.
So. It's this miserable chicken who fled when war came, and now saw his chance to publicize his appreciation for life.
In 1971, the rock group THE WHO released the antiwar annthem Won't Get Fooled Gain. To most in my generation, the song conveyed a sense of betrayal by the nation's leaders, who had led the US into a costly and unnecesesary war in Vietnam. To those of use who were truly counterculture-who became career members of the military during those rough times-the song conveyed a very different message. BLAH BLAH BLAH Never again,, we thought, would our military's senior leaders remain silent as American troops were marched off to an ill-considered engagement. It's 35 years later, and the judgement is in: the Who had it wrong. We have been fooled again.
Correction: military leaders like you were either zealots who happily went to murder little children, or cowards who fled. No one was fooled. I believe there were enough news about the, say, OIL in iraq in dunno how many countries to show everyone the truth. Fooled? Are you sure it isn't cause you were, say, too SCARED to speak up?
"Inside the military family, I made no secret of my view that the zealots' rationale for war made no sense. BLAH BLAH BLAH. I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11's tragedy to hijack America's security policy."
Well, obviously your view wasn't open enough, cause instead of standing there to argue your point to the end, you FLED to the comfort of your pretty little house cause you didn't dare to speak up. What happened to the marching parades with signboards that protested against the invasion? Why didn't you participate in THAT? Your retirement wasn't a show of opposition. It's I-don't-like-what-you're-doing-so-I'M-WASHING-MY-HANDS-OFF-THIS-BUSINESS-SO-GO-AND-MURDER-THE-CHILDREN-IT'S-NOT-MY-FAULT-CAUSE-I'VE-RETIRED.
Until now, I have resisted speaking out in public. I've been silent long enough.
Because, obviously, now that the matter has blown over and there's little chance of you being prosecuted for speaking out, or now that the shrub is so busy hiding his face and trying to repair the damage he did that he'll welcome people like you who apparently show that not all Americans are bad that you're in no danger, you're happy enough to finally stand out, and portray yourself as a hero instead of the uncaring-for-native-americans you'll have undoubtedly been labelled by shrub back then.
I shall go off to sleep. For those who haven't read it, go read it. He goes on to speak of the 'cost of flawed leadership' - apparently cause the lieutenant general himself fled retired at this critical time.
On another hand, our men in white should learn from this chicken. He may spew off a load of crap, but at least it sounds plausible. It's much better than 'but the causeway holds so many fond memories and I'll really miss it.'
Stupid glory-seeking jackasses who think that they can gain good opinion by waiting until everything blows over then saying some perfuctory 'oh, we have been prejudiced...'
