Too much anti-war sentiment in the United States focuses on the disastrous consequences wrought by American violence on the Iraqi people. Not enough pays attention to the sickening extortion of Iraqis’ natural and material resources to cover the cost of crippling, starving, invading, occupying, and destroying their country.

This is the democracy racket: a fraudulent enterprise that offers freedom, in exchange for occupation; human rights, in exchange for Abu Ghurayb; security, in exchange for bribed militants; and a parliament, in exchange for the oversight of an embassy-fortress.

America’s debt to Iraq will never be paid.

Tags: Absurdities by yaman
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Four and a half years and 75,000 Iraqi and 3,800 American deaths later, the best thing America has to show for the invasion and occupation of Iraq is this single story, which is turning out to be more about easing a guilty American conscience than it is about helping those whose lives have been irreversibly destroyed by a trigger-happy American president.

How many of those now driven to “support” Youssif will mobilize to stop the war? Withdrawal comes first, then reparations.

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It seems to me that the Democratic party began using the word ‘quagmire’ when it became critical of the war. So, we oppose the ‘quagmire’ in Iraq. Does that mean that if the war is no longer a ‘quagmire,’ but a ‘war’ with the possibility of a victorious end, that the Democratic party and all its supporters would then support the ‘war’? Is it possible to oppose the quagmire, but support the war? I do not trust the anti-quagmire politicians.

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The California Patriot claims to be Berkeley’s “conservative student voice.” Looking through their magazine, though, it’s difficult to come away with anything but the conclusion that they spend a lot more time hating liberals, or rather liberal stereotypes, than they do promoting any sort of coherent and consistent ideology–unless, of course, ‘hate’ counts.