The Hammer Falls
By Cathryn Crawford (03/21/03)
The so-called illegitimate war has begun, not with shock and awe – much to the surprise of the all-knowing media - but with a few dozen missiles winging their way towards specific targets of opportunity. Instead of the bombardment of Baghdad, we have the surgical precision of laser-guided missiles seeking to kill Iraqi leadership.
And, right on time, the Hussein apologists have stepped out in full force to condemn America for its imperialistic arrogance in thinking that the whole of humanity deserves freedom.
There is, however, a shining light of victory at the end of this tunnel of criticism – namely, the fact that we are right, and everybody, in the end, will know it.
As this war begins, peaks, and ends, and as our victory goes from uncertain to assured, there will throughout be people who will stand and say that Saddam Hussein isn’t really that bad, that the regime really doesn’t need to be changed – especially not by the imperialistic Americans. They will say that we are doing it for the wrong reasons, and that Hussein should stay in power. They will say that we shouldn’t rush to war, that he’s really a trustworthy guy if we would just give him another chance. However, the words and deeds of the Iraqi dictator himself, even from looking simply at the first 36 hours of this conflict, have shown these people to be, quite frankly, idiots.
The French are stupid enough to shoot themselves in the foot over Iraq – first denying that Hussein had illegal chemical weapons, then saying that if he uses these non-existent weapons on coalition forces, they will help us out. Gee whiz, Chirac, thanks a lot! We’ll definitely try to remember that the next time we’re analyzing our imports from France…
Then, of course, there are those make-believe missiles that Hussein launched at U.S forces and Kuwaiti civilians Thursday. Hussein must be some kind of guy to be able to use all these things that don’t even exist!
Forget shooting themselves in the foot. I think the French are aiming a bit higher on their bodies at this point.
Everybody has been assured over the last few months – mostly by Europeans and Hollywood European wannabes - that we Americans are just a bunch of warmongers who don’t really care about the Iraqi people. We just have an incredible lust for blood and oil. The reasoning and logic behind that catchy pro-Saddam slogan hasn’t dawned on me yet, but who knows? Maybe I’m just slow.
Anyway, as the war ends, an even bigger task awaits us - the cleaning of the Augean stables – the thorough washing out of a nation, as it were. As we slowly and methodically tear down the Iraqi regime of terror and replace it with the people’s choice of government, it will be interesting and vindicating to find out just what Hussein has been trying so hard to keep the U.N. weapons inspectors from finding all these long years.
I wonder what it will be, and I wonder what the excuses will be this time. What will Blix and El- Baradei say when the anthrax that most surely exists is found? What will the Axis of Weasels have to say when the dust settles, the smoke clears and the Americans are being lauded as liberators in Baghdad? What will Russia and China say when we find that Hussein had more weapons of mass destruction then they would ever care know?
And, more to the point, who cares? By then, it’ll be a moot point, anyway. America is at the top of its game, and old Europe and its sympathizers have been left in the dust yet again.
I can’t say I’m sorry.
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