March 20, 2003
a kinder, gentler atrocity

I'm not going to prattle on too much about our uninvited aggression in Iraq. I figure there are many, many places that you can get unbiased opinions about such matters. This isn't one of them. Nope. I wear my heart on my sleeve when it comes to this situation.

However, I do have to point out what seems to me to be an interesting public relations twist to this event. In the months leading up to our invasion we were constantly defending our position by couching it in terms of "a matter of our national security". People didn't like that. They didn't see the threat. Instead we've now tried to call it a liberation. Those poor Iraqis. We need to free them from their evil dictator. That worked in WWII, right? We liberated Europe and the world loved us. The problem is that that's not how we have been trying to sell our position to the rest of the world.

Operation Iraqi Freedom. More like Operation Revisionist History.

I leave you with this...

At the White House, officials said that just before Bush addressed the nation, he pumped his fist, winked, and said "I feel good." He then delivered his address, which lasted four minutes.

I bet you do, I bet you do.

Posted by mikewolf at March 20, 2003 02:20 PM
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I knew I could count on my old cronie to notice the rhetorical shift by the Bush Administration! See, we're rescuing them! Aren't we great? Isn't America the bestest? We should be off protecting ourselves, but instead, we're liberating these poor folks.

Dr. Hinck(s) would be so proud of us.

Posted by: Kirsten on March 21, 2003 03:19 AM
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