Past Present & Future

ridiculous

this situation in iraq is getting more and more ridiculous by the minute. back in 2003 when they said - oh no we’ll invade and it will be quick- if anyone said that it was nonsense and patently untrue,( which loads of people did!) they were simply regarded as a bunch of silly lefties, not as people talking good hard sense. actually i do know lots of people who were anti-war not necessarily cos they have first-hand experience of the chaos of war, but had the requisite imagination. Now I personally do have this experience and I could and did point out that once you’ve entered into a violent situation its a muddy business to say the least and pretty damn difficult to get out of. ( and not even considering the long-term consequences - we can talk about that some other time)

Anyway, everyone said so. But now look - the situation’s gone from worse to even more worse and no-one can see an end in sight. sound familiar?

and why is there no end in sight? well to start off with, it was pretty pathetic - “we will weed out ‘insurgents’ “. excuse me - but how the fuck where the army/occupying authority ( british or american or whoever else) going to know who was an insurgent and who wasn’t? given the fact that they’ve already had to admit their lack of cultural sophistication and that their “intelligence was pretty thin on the ground”. certainly not unless they’d made a darned good effort; and its not like a bunch of soldiers are the clearest thinkers in the world. ( sorry - but you know its true - cos if you were - you’d never have joined an army - duh! ha ha)

and now after the latest incident with having to blast 2 soldiers out of a prison in Basra- its suddenly “oh we’re going to have to stick around just a bit longer to weed out the dodgy types in the police”.. Again - how are they going to know who’s who??

there really seems no end in sight if they are going to insist on keeping this sort of thing up. “Iraq for the Iraqis” they said, but its such a funny statement - really its ” Iraq for the Iraqis we haven’t weeded out and killed” . which by this stage isnt looking like too many people will be left to enjoy this “democratic state” .. that they’ve worked so lovingly to build..