Obviously, the US media is NOT honestly reporting the true events of Gulf War II. You can blame the Bush administration and the US military for allowing “embedded journalist” (read, censored reporting) for this fiasco.

Last April, a Canadian, yes, Canadian all news network proved that Bush et al had created the illusion of weapons of mass destruction. They debunked most of the administration’s “proof”. They also analysed Bush’s speeches. The rhetoric for going to war with Iraq commenced Sept. 12, 2000, one day after 9-1-1, saying that Iraq was part of the “axis of evil” and that Hussein had ties with Al Qaeda, which we all know by now that this is false.

These same journalists also rooted out the PR firm that the Bush administration had hired. The PR firm’s job was to sell the Iraqi war to the American people, which, in retrospect, the firm did do quite well.

Again, these same journalists polled American people and found that over 40% of them thought the US had found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It makes one wonder how many Americans were conceived in the shallow end of the gene pool.

If the religious right can highjack the Republican Party, how hard can it be for us to take over the Democratic Party?

It goes back to that “the people will get the leader they deserve” thing. People want this shit.

Canada anyone?

Yes, “There is a responsibility that comes with being the biggest and the baddest,” but it doesn’t mean we can take the law into our own hands. That’s why laws — whether national or international — are made.

There are people beating a dogs all over the world, and we don’t do a goddamn thing to stop them. In fact, sometimes we grab a stick and help.

The question was, and continues to be, whether the way we stopped Saddam was appropriate. The only legitimate justifications we had for attacking Saddam was that he posed an immediate and dire threat to this country. He did not: The Bushtards lied to us and the world.

Stop letting the administration do your thinking for you.

In other words, the argument was, “We have to protect our national security. Oh, and by the way, Hussein’s evil, so no loss.”

Now that there are doubts about the truthfulness of claims that Iraq possessed WMD, the pundits in favor of the war fall back onto their secondary argument. It seems sort of herioc, knowing that as the “biggest and baddest” we’ve saved the world from another evil, a la X-men or whatever superhero of choice.

The problem with the secondary arguement, Anya, is that unfortunately, this damn world is FULL of Husseins. Without even going into the issues surrounding the US’s culpability in supporting many of these dictators, to include Hussein himself, the biggest problem is the precedent such a policy establishes. If our responsibility as the “biggest and baddest” is to take care of all the evil, murderous dictators out there, then that means we are the world’s police. This is not what any thinking American should want, not to mention that the world itself doesn’t want America to do it anyway (duh, why do you think so many terrorists want to see the destruction of the US?).

This is not to say that we should stand ildy by when innocents are being killed. Something SHOULD be done about it. Who should do it? How about a world-wide congregation of nations working together democratically? Novel idea — Oh, wait, there’s already an organization put in place to do that — it’s called the U.N. But, shucks, America’s told the U.N. to go screw itself.

Just something to think about, Anya. Heroism is great, but blindly blazing guns only allows for a hell of a lot of stray bullets.