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February 2, 2007
Who's to Blame for The Killing In Iraq?
Topics: IraqCharles Krauthammer does just about as good a job as I've seen on answering the question of responsibility for the insane killing of Arabs on Arabs, Shiites on Shiites, and Sunnis on everyone, and it's damned well not the United States of America, as the Dems and their leftist friends claim:
We have made a lot of mistakes in Iraq. But when Arabs kill Arabs and Shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis kill all in a spasm of violence that is blind and furious and has roots in hatreds born long before America was even a republic, to place the blame on the one player, the one country, the one military that has done more than any other to try to separate the combatants and bring conciliation is simply perverse.Read the rest here.It infantilizes Arabs. It demonizes Americans. It willfully overlooks the plainest of facts: Iraq is their country. We midwifed their freedom. They chose civil war.
The killing is of the Iraqis own choosing, and they can end it if they really want freedom and democracy. Just like Iranian-born journalist Amil Taheri points out; what's happening in Iraq is neither a civil nor a sectarian war, rather a political one. The battle is between the Iraqis who wish Iraq to succeed as a new democracy and the Iraqis who want it to fail.
Blaming the U.S. is simply pathetic BS.
Posted by Richard at February 2, 2007 3:48 PM
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Comments
i read that article in full in print and ended it spitting in rage.
Krauthammer won a Pulitzer prize?
For what?
He makes several claims in that article including one that equates the British leaving India ( And the subsequent civil war between Hindus and muslims was as unforeseeable as the American led attack on, and occupation of, a large chunk of the muslim middle east would lead to something similar.
Bullshit,
The British left India.... America attacked then occupied Iraq.
They are not the same thing.
The British left under American pressure who were working to dismantle the British Empire and the british knew, and did what they could, to alievate the war they knew the leaving would bring.
America didn't bring "Freedom" "Liberty" or democracy" to Iraq.... America resisted from day one any and all attempts to bring free and fair elections to the Iraqi people until the Neo-cons were sure they had pre-positioned their chosen candidates in winning positions... people like the international crook and Iranian stooge Chalabi for example.
That they ( And I'm talking Krauthammer) failed in this like they have done in all else is now par for the course.
Before this War.... promoted by the likes of Krauthammer, got underway America's own Military chief of staff told a Congressional committee that it was going to take an army of hundreds of thousands at least fifteen years to stablize Iraq and embed the infrastructure needed to support a genuine democracy.
He got fired for saying so... but he was right and the likes of Krauthammer was wrong.
Krauthammer now wants to claim we were all ignorant of the hideous consequences of the actions he worked so hard to get going and therefore he deserves another go at influencing public policy in an effort to put it right.
He's lying.... the majority of the planet were well aware what America's action would trigger.... said so.... and stayed away.
The fact that claims he was ignorant, and that he is willing to lie, in public, disqualifies him from any role whatsoever on in public life.
DaveGood
Posted by: DaveGood at February 14, 2007 2:50 PM
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