My last post about the war.
hopefully, this will be the last thing i write about the war.
I mean it could not be any clearer that that whole invasion of Iraq was bullshit. I mean even the American army brats and army wives who cut me from their friends list because "when you criticise our President, you criticise all of us, and i take offense" couldn't possibly fail to see this. Could they?
The attempts to link Saddam with Al-Queda have been scratchy at best. Saddam was captured by locals and handed over the American troops. There's sure as hell no WMD's, and pretty much everyone who has ever been told to find them, has given it up as a bad job.
All of these setbacks to the "heroic action" to "save the world" that seems to have been the main aim from Bushy the Kid, have pretty much just ended where they were and not been followed up. Story after story has appeared and disappeared without comment, without any attempt to refute them, discuss them or dissect them.
Obviously these stories don't sell newspapers, and given the the main media sources that i get are from Australia, UK & the US, it's pretty obvious that there will be pressure from those respective Governments to "shut the hell up and talk about the cricket or something".
All three Governments are under pressure to come up with excuses, and that's what they are just excuses, but we are so used to excuses from Governments that we just wait for them, and see what they are saying they will do this coming election. Suddenly, the Australian forces that were integral to the information gathering that proved there were WMD's and such reasons to invade, weren't as involved as our PM initially reported. It's just pitiful.
Mark Latham the new opposition leader in the Australian Parliament summed it all up nicely. "It was a war justified primarily to find and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. None were used in the conflict; none have been found since. And on that basis [the] war was sustained on a premise that hasn't been proven and hasn't been justified."
The US Army War College (America's "most prestigious institution for the education of strategic leaders", which attacked the invasion of Iraq as "a detour" from the war on terrorism and the Bush Administration's attempts to prve a link between Saddam Hussein and AL-Qaeda were a "srategic error of the first order". And let us make no mistake here, this was not a police action, this was not a search and destroy. This is every bit as much an invasion as the execution of the Von Schlieffen plan in 1914, or of the Japanese taking of Singapore. One sovereign nation invaded another.
People give the US a kicking over it's involvement in Vietnam. Compared to Vietman, where they were involving themselves in a civil war as a microcosm of a world conflict (capitalism v communism and old-world colonialism v new world independance), and had been left holding the bag by the french, this Iraq business is nothing more than outright aggression.
And Senator Edward Kennedy of Mass. is still turning out some absolute pearlers, he has made me laugh out loud a few times recently, but this one is another gem. "No president of the United States should employ misguided ideology and distortion of the truth to take the nation to war. In doing so, the President broke the basic bond of trust between Government and the people. If Congress and the American people knew the whole truth, America would have never gone to war."
None of this would have happened twenty years ago. America would have been too scared of involvement from the Soviets, but now that there is no-one to oppose them, Bushy the Kid decided to stretch his reach and see what would happen. No-one is afraid of China unless you are an immediate neighbour, because China never seems to look too far outside of it's boundaries, and seems to pay very little attention to what goes on in the outside world. I think they are both waiting for their time, and also have a little more sense.
China is not the peaceful, slightly hippy, spiritual, respectful nation that you might expect from the various chinese meditative philosophies that are so popular in the West now. They are a machine. A well oiled machine that is ready to fight a war on whatever terms neccessary. They have met the Western Colonial Diplomacy and threw off the yoke and set themselves to deal with this, should it come knocking again, by purging anyone who was not up to the task of being hard. Fucking Hard.
It's clear that they have and had no idea what they were doing, thus they inflicted untold miseries on their own people, and yet they have come through and are almost totally independant from the rest of the world. There are no excuses for their occupation of Tibet and others, however they are ready to deal with the West should it come knocking.
The United States and their people have one their independance from their colonial masters, but they are of the same stock, they are white, they are Anglo-Saxons, their war was one of growing up and rebelling against their parents. The Chinese were ruled and made to work for by these same Anglo-Saxons, aliens to them. Their war was one of freedom. Never been oppressed, America, you have no idea.
I mean it could not be any clearer that that whole invasion of Iraq was bullshit. I mean even the American army brats and army wives who cut me from their friends list because "when you criticise our President, you criticise all of us, and i take offense" couldn't possibly fail to see this. Could they?
The attempts to link Saddam with Al-Queda have been scratchy at best. Saddam was captured by locals and handed over the American troops. There's sure as hell no WMD's, and pretty much everyone who has ever been told to find them, has given it up as a bad job.
All of these setbacks to the "heroic action" to "save the world" that seems to have been the main aim from Bushy the Kid, have pretty much just ended where they were and not been followed up. Story after story has appeared and disappeared without comment, without any attempt to refute them, discuss them or dissect them.
Obviously these stories don't sell newspapers, and given the the main media sources that i get are from Australia, UK & the US, it's pretty obvious that there will be pressure from those respective Governments to "shut the hell up and talk about the cricket or something".
All three Governments are under pressure to come up with excuses, and that's what they are just excuses, but we are so used to excuses from Governments that we just wait for them, and see what they are saying they will do this coming election. Suddenly, the Australian forces that were integral to the information gathering that proved there were WMD's and such reasons to invade, weren't as involved as our PM initially reported. It's just pitiful.
Mark Latham the new opposition leader in the Australian Parliament summed it all up nicely. "It was a war justified primarily to find and eliminate weapons of mass destruction. None were used in the conflict; none have been found since. And on that basis [the] war was sustained on a premise that hasn't been proven and hasn't been justified."
The US Army War College (America's "most prestigious institution for the education of strategic leaders", which attacked the invasion of Iraq as "a detour" from the war on terrorism and the Bush Administration's attempts to prve a link between Saddam Hussein and AL-Qaeda were a "srategic error of the first order". And let us make no mistake here, this was not a police action, this was not a search and destroy. This is every bit as much an invasion as the execution of the Von Schlieffen plan in 1914, or of the Japanese taking of Singapore. One sovereign nation invaded another.
People give the US a kicking over it's involvement in Vietnam. Compared to Vietman, where they were involving themselves in a civil war as a microcosm of a world conflict (capitalism v communism and old-world colonialism v new world independance), and had been left holding the bag by the french, this Iraq business is nothing more than outright aggression.
And Senator Edward Kennedy of Mass. is still turning out some absolute pearlers, he has made me laugh out loud a few times recently, but this one is another gem. "No president of the United States should employ misguided ideology and distortion of the truth to take the nation to war. In doing so, the President broke the basic bond of trust between Government and the people. If Congress and the American people knew the whole truth, America would have never gone to war."
None of this would have happened twenty years ago. America would have been too scared of involvement from the Soviets, but now that there is no-one to oppose them, Bushy the Kid decided to stretch his reach and see what would happen. No-one is afraid of China unless you are an immediate neighbour, because China never seems to look too far outside of it's boundaries, and seems to pay very little attention to what goes on in the outside world. I think they are both waiting for their time, and also have a little more sense.
China is not the peaceful, slightly hippy, spiritual, respectful nation that you might expect from the various chinese meditative philosophies that are so popular in the West now. They are a machine. A well oiled machine that is ready to fight a war on whatever terms neccessary. They have met the Western Colonial Diplomacy and threw off the yoke and set themselves to deal with this, should it come knocking again, by purging anyone who was not up to the task of being hard. Fucking Hard.
It's clear that they have and had no idea what they were doing, thus they inflicted untold miseries on their own people, and yet they have come through and are almost totally independant from the rest of the world. There are no excuses for their occupation of Tibet and others, however they are ready to deal with the West should it come knocking.
The United States and their people have one their independance from their colonial masters, but they are of the same stock, they are white, they are Anglo-Saxons, their war was one of growing up and rebelling against their parents. The Chinese were ruled and made to work for by these same Anglo-Saxons, aliens to them. Their war was one of freedom. Never been oppressed, America, you have no idea.