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What's Election Day Without a Rant?
Nov. 7th, 2006 07:46 amA very annoying essay by sci fi writer Orson Scott Card has been making the rounds these past few days. Sample quote:
But we are not waging a "War in Iraq." We are waging a world war, in which the campaigns to topple the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan were brilliantly successful, and the current "lukewarm" war demands great patience and determination from the American people as we ready ourselves for the next phase.
But, see, if this were really the case, even now Donald Rumsfield would be making plans to invade Saudi Arabia. 'Cause y'know that's where the money trail leads. Plus talk about replacing your slimy corrupt government with a democracy!
We're not making plans to invade Saudi Arabia.
So, alas! Card's Sidney Carton imitation does not move me in the least.
I will add here that I am not a pacifist and could easily have been persuaded to support the war in Iraq had there been WMDs. There weren't. And this was obvious from the get-go.
Fuckers lied to us.
Bush's Iraq agenda appears to be completely personal, some kind of hallucinatory comic book adventure with the Axis Of Evil. (I wonder what color his Super Hero suit is?) His advisors' were motivated more conventionally by pure, old-fashioned greed and the prospect of lining up those fat "reconstruction" projects for Haliburton and Bechtel.
The real reconstruction will have to wait for the end of the Civil War. When will that be? Oh, I'd give it at least 25 years. And on that last note – Caspar Weinberger is smarter than Dick Cheney. Bechtel made its EZ money and is now pulling out (ver-r-ry quietly.) Haliburton is still there.
But we are not waging a "War in Iraq." We are waging a world war, in which the campaigns to topple the governments of Iraq and Afghanistan were brilliantly successful, and the current "lukewarm" war demands great patience and determination from the American people as we ready ourselves for the next phase.
But, see, if this were really the case, even now Donald Rumsfield would be making plans to invade Saudi Arabia. 'Cause y'know that's where the money trail leads. Plus talk about replacing your slimy corrupt government with a democracy!
We're not making plans to invade Saudi Arabia.
So, alas! Card's Sidney Carton imitation does not move me in the least.
I will add here that I am not a pacifist and could easily have been persuaded to support the war in Iraq had there been WMDs. There weren't. And this was obvious from the get-go.
Fuckers lied to us.
Bush's Iraq agenda appears to be completely personal, some kind of hallucinatory comic book adventure with the Axis Of Evil. (I wonder what color his Super Hero suit is?) His advisors' were motivated more conventionally by pure, old-fashioned greed and the prospect of lining up those fat "reconstruction" projects for Haliburton and Bechtel.
The real reconstruction will have to wait for the end of the Civil War. When will that be? Oh, I'd give it at least 25 years. And on that last note – Caspar Weinberger is smarter than Dick Cheney. Bechtel made its EZ money and is now pulling out (ver-r-ry quietly.) Haliburton is still there.
