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Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Is this what the war's supporters wanted?
Posted by Jill | 7:06 AM

Ever since the war started, Bush's mindless, blind, grinning supporters with their flags and their ribbon magnets have been perfectly willing to buy into the ever-changing rationales for this war. I've never really understood this dynamic; this idea that you just shrug off the fact that there are no weapons of mass destruction after you were told that they were not only certain there were, but that they knew where they were. I've never understood how anyone can just forget about this and mindlessly parrot, "Yes, we originally went into Iraq to impose democracy, yes, yes, yes, Bush sayeth so ergo it's true." The fact of the matter is that there was ONE reason Bush started this war, and when that ONE reason turned out to be horseshit, he decided -- quite accurately, as it turns out -- that he could dupe the moronic American public into changing his original rationale whenever he wanted to, and they'd buy it.

I wonder how all those people with the ribbon magnets; the ones panting from jumping through logical hoops for three years, feel now that our noble military exercise in Iraq has succeeded only into turning Iraq into an Iran with an endless civil war between secularists and Islamists:

Ayad Allawi, the current prime minister, and Barham Salih, a Kurdish politician and deputy prime minister, said in separate interviews on Tuesday that without guarantees renouncing sectarianism and embracing Western democratic ideals they were poised to block Dr. Jaafari's nomination and possibly peel off enough members from the Shiite's United Iraqi Alliance to form a government of their own.

Iraq's interim constitution effectively requires a two-thirds majority in the new assembly to choose a prime minister and government, and the Shiite alliance, led by two religious parties with close ties to Iran, won a bare majority in the Jan. 30 election.

Indeed, initial indications were that a potentially polarizing battle was possible, one that could expose the deep fissures in Iraqi society that have been held in check since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Those fissures not only cut across sectarian and ethnic lines but also track a wide disagreement about the nature of the Iraqi state: whether it should be religious or secular, centrally led or governed by a federal system, allied to Iran or anchored in ties to the West.


Let's face it, folks. Iraq is a total, utter botch-job. There is no way that the secularists and Islamicists are going to live peacefully side-by-side. The choice in Iraq now, after Bush's Great Adventure in Attempted Penis Size Enhancement, is an Iran-friendly Islamist government, or a U.S.-puppet secularist government that we are going to have to prop up via military strength in perpetuity. If you think the latter is a great option, I have three words for you: Shah Reza Pahlavi.
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