Vive Iraq!

[jbor]

>> It's great to see the footage of thousands of Iraqi people celebrating on the
>> streets of Baghdad now that Hussein has been toppled. After 23 years of
>> oppression and fear the people of Iraq can finally
>> live again.

on 11/4/03 12:08 AM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:
 
> Except for the ones killed -- predictably, either by
> the traditional methods or because of the margin of
> error of the so-called "precision" munitions'  -- by
> US and UK and Australian forces.

Not to mention the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, killed by
Saddam. Of course. They don't count in that mean little world of propaganda
you inhabit.

War is hell. The deaths of hundreds of civilians, journos and American and
British soldiers and thousands of Iraqi soldiers and militia is a terrible
tragedy. But the people of Iraq are now free. Both/and, not either/or.

best