Rebel With a Cause
Tonight the administration its media lackeys hail a great victory, reminiscent of their reportage of the killings of al-Zarqawi, Qusay and Uday:
"Terrorist suspect" is code for people without rifles.
Why couldn't they go into the safe house and arrest the guy? The Iraqis, of course, not us. We had intelligence on the ground; we confirmed al-Tunisi's presence from a fleeing inhabitant of the safe house minutes before the bombing. That gesture would give us at least the patina of justice and legitimacy.
Of course, they keep talking about how the level of violence will ratchet up after our departure. And what do they call dropping two 500-lb bombs on somebody's head?
I cannot be happy about this. We have killed a leader of a rebel group of our own creation. (Al-Qaida in Iraq did not exists prior to our invasion.) It is a homegrown phenomenon, discrete from al-Qaida worldwide.
Does anyone else feel the absurdity of this? We are creating them, and then killing them. This is madness. The news trots out the incendiary catch phrases -- "suspected of kidnapping and torture" -- images usually effective in quelling any protest. How can you be for someone who does those dastardly things?
Of course, the U.S. has achieved 25,000 additional prisoners as a result of the Surge -- couldn't you call that, too, a form of kidnapping? We'll leave the torture issue off the table.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said "he believes al-Qaida leadership is taking stock of its ability to disrupt U.S. and Iraqi government activities in Iraq."
I'd say they're pretty chuffed.
The death of this leader will not change the nature of this organization, nor will it change the fact that the U.S. is an illegal invading army of aggression that drops big bombs on Iraqis who protest the occupation.
Democracy rules.
--Lisa
"Abu Osama al-Tunisi, supposedly one of the most senior leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq "was killed along with two other terrorist suspects in a U.S. F-16 strike that dropped two 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a safe house where they were meeting, said the U.S. Central Command Air Forces."
"Terrorist suspect" is code for people without rifles.
Why couldn't they go into the safe house and arrest the guy? The Iraqis, of course, not us. We had intelligence on the ground; we confirmed al-Tunisi's presence from a fleeing inhabitant of the safe house minutes before the bombing. That gesture would give us at least the patina of justice and legitimacy.
Of course, they keep talking about how the level of violence will ratchet up after our departure. And what do they call dropping two 500-lb bombs on somebody's head?
I cannot be happy about this. We have killed a leader of a rebel group of our own creation. (Al-Qaida in Iraq did not exists prior to our invasion.) It is a homegrown phenomenon, discrete from al-Qaida worldwide.
Does anyone else feel the absurdity of this? We are creating them, and then killing them. This is madness. The news trots out the incendiary catch phrases -- "suspected of kidnapping and torture" -- images usually effective in quelling any protest. How can you be for someone who does those dastardly things?
Of course, the U.S. has achieved 25,000 additional prisoners as a result of the Surge -- couldn't you call that, too, a form of kidnapping? We'll leave the torture issue off the table.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson said "he believes al-Qaida leadership is taking stock of its ability to disrupt U.S. and Iraqi government activities in Iraq."
I'd say they're pretty chuffed.
The death of this leader will not change the nature of this organization, nor will it change the fact that the U.S. is an illegal invading army of aggression that drops big bombs on Iraqis who protest the occupation.
Democracy rules.
--Lisa
posted by rangeragainstwar at 9:22 PM
2 Comments:
"Terrorist suspect" is code for people without rifles.
Exactly. We are so busy counting bodies that we have regressed to Viet Nam rules.
In some ways, Lurch, I think we have lost the standards the Army did have in the time of Vietnam.
But yes, in this particular way (body counts), it is reminiscent.
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