Sylvester wins
"And some people are still against the war because we bombed too many civic administration offices or for other relatively minor reasons."
It would probably surprise you to learn that ear cutting is not the worst thing that has happened to people in Iraq or the Middle East in general (just to keep things confined to that area). A tremendous amount of inhuman torturing and maiming is going on as we speak in, for instance, Turkey.
What are you gonna do about it? Nothing, you say, because the war on Iraq was not based only on human rights abuses but also on the threat against the U.S. that Iraq posed, along with its possession of WMDs (Iraq's not the United States'). However, that threat has not been verified nor amply supported, except for generalities and some extremely thin "evidence" that not even Powell dares to support anymore.
So, we are left with the human rights excuse/reason, once more. A country was picked for no other reason except to demonstrate to the world, per the new "American Century" doctrine, that the new era of American unilateralism, absolutism and militarism is upon us. Jingoists like Wogga here have a hard time hiding their glee or keeping their words free of racial abuse and anti-Arab prejudice, even as they speak of "Iraqi liberation". You see American officials proclaiming "moral victory" on TV and they are grinning like they swallowed that damn canary, finally.
The obvious question then, i.e. what are the rules of the game? becomes empty of purpose.
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