I just wanted to remind people exactly what is getting bombed. I don't care what you think of Saddam or what your views on the legitimacy of this conflict are. Those are separate issues, and they ignore the overwhelming underlying moral question. I think everyone needs to know just who's getting killed and what's getting destroyed as the US murderers continue their killing spree.
Baghdad is a city of four million people. While it has irreplaceable cultural value, it's also a modern city of skyscrapers and everything we expect from a Western city — I think that perhaps people have been misled into thinking it's a bunch of mud huts… Anyway, a couple photos:
How different does that look from where you live?
People live there. People like you. People as innocent and unrelated to the butchers ordering and facilitating these attacks as you. They will die for the multitude of fanatics and businessmen fueling this atrocity… But none of those evil men will die, will they?
You may be seeing the ruling class in all the countries around Iraq freaking out — I've seen it all morning… “Death to the Americans” they shout. These are Saddam's enemies shouting this. They hate America even more than they hate him, and Osama bin Laden and his followers are rejoicing in the victory they're winning today.
But…
Two thirds of that region is under thirty thanks to the brutal sanctions and horrific rulers that have killed much of the population. Those two thirds want dialogue with the West, and want to enjoy the same freedoms and wealth. The only reason they haven't is because of the religious fanatics leading them and American efforts to stop it from happening.
KEEPING IT FROM HAPPENING IS WHY THIS WAR EXISTS.
By invading, Bush guarantees that extremists stay in power. He guarantees that the youth becomes radicalized. He guarantees that the Middle East stays repressed, and never rises to Western modernism, freedom, and, to be blunt, power.
This is about ensuring that the global pyramid game keeps its Pharaoh.
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