During his recent speech, Bush said, "These two visions [America versus the terrorists'] have now met in Iraq, and are contending for the future of that country. We will persevere and defeat this enemy, and hold this hard-won ground for the realm of liberty."
Where exactly is the realm of liberty again? Isn't that somewhere near Sweden? Or am I thinking of libertay. Man, my geography sucks.
Anyway, I'm a little lost. Who is "this enemy" again? I thought it was supposed to be Saddam and his loyalists. But now it seems it is the terrorists. So is Bush saying we will defeat the terrorists by use of force in Iraq? Really? My impression of terrorism is that it isn't really that simple, especially if many of the terrorists are coming from outside of Iraq to begin with. What's to keep more from coming once we shoot all the ones that are there now?
Or perhaps our enemies are the Iraqi factions still fighting us. So, we are contending for the future of Iraq with...the Iraqis?
Or perhaps he refers to his buddy Chalabi. You know, the anti-Baathist guy who supposedly supplied most of that dubious info on WMDs, and in return we tried to put his little group in power and gave a ton of money to. Now, turns out he's not such a buddy.
Hmmm. This all seems so familiar. Bush administration helps man in Iraq, gives him money and aid, then he becomes the enemy...Good to see we are learning from our mistakes, eh?
Of course, who could blame the Bush administration. Chalabi pretty much handed them on a silver platter the excuses they so badly wanted to believe in order to implement their long-standing obsession...er, I mean "vision," of pre-emptive war, invading Iraq, and using it as a base from which to spread "liberty" and "freedom" through the Middle-East.
Of course, that's not what we are doing. We are really spreading freedom and...uh...liberty...Huh. Whatta' ya' know? Dreams do come true.
Or are they still dreamin'?
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