WHERE’S SADDAM WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
4+ years (and several hundred thousand lives) later, the US pines for a strongman in Iraq.
Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and can bring security. A workable democratic and sovereign government in Iraq was one of the Bush administration’s stated goals of the war.
But for the first time, exasperated front-line U.S. generals talk openly of non-democratic governmental alternatives… “Democratic institutions are not necessarily the way ahead in the long-term future,” said Brig. Gen. John “Mick” Bednarek, part of Task Force Lightning in Diyala province, one of the war’s major battlegrounds.
Worst! Fucking! President! Ever!
4 Responses to “WHERE’S SADDAM WHEN YOU NEED HIM?”
 Comment by Lisa Giebitz August 22nd, 2007 at 5:57 pm |
Oh-thank-God. I was wondering when someone would come to their senses and realize that you can’t force a country into a democracy (or a democratic republic). |
 Comment by Audrey August 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 pm |
We’re fighting for democracy. Huh? Wait a minute, sorry. We’re fighting for a “non-democratic governmental alternative.” Okay. So…. should somebody go dig Hussein back up, or what? |
 Comment by Rob August 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm |
Nah – Bush is a good president. Of course you start out shooting for a stable democratic ally that fundamentally alters the power structure of that end of the world. But if you have to, you settle for someone that doesn’t work with/train/harbor/support terrorists. Even if Iraq ends up being Iran’s buffer against Saudi Arabia, it will have been worth it just for the sheer number of bad guys we’ve been able to kill during the ride. And we also got the intelligence services of the Arab world to work with us. Geopolitics is expensive and costs lives. But if you don’t play the game, you end up as a vassal state to someone else’s hegemony. When it comes to Hegemons, America is the nicest and most laid back. Rob |
 Comment by sam August 23rd, 2007 at 12:55 pm |
Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia are not our problems. Our problem is Islamic fundamentalism that drives people to commit terrorist acts. Saddam was a shitty leader for his country, but he didn’t attack us. Seems to me our country should wipe its own ass before going across the globe to complain that someone else stinks. |