Deadly Trinkets Left Behind
Nick Clooney from the Cincinnati Post wrote an insightful article today about the deadly after effects of one country bringing war to another. It's worth a read and this segment will haunt me:
The Bush administration and its supporters would probably say that it is Saddam's fault for not disarming...wait...there was nothing to disarm...
To me, the haunting quality of all this is trying to inventory all the places on earth where protracted wars have taken place. Armies have been very good at firing shells and planting mines. Much less thought was given to removing unexploded ordnance once the conflict was over.
Deaths of innocent people, most not even born when the war was fought, will still be paying the blood cost when all of us are gone.
The Bush administration and its supporters would probably say that it is Saddam's fault for not disarming...wait...there was nothing to disarm...
posted by Tootsie Farklepants at 11:00 AM
2 Comments:
Once again, you are revising history. It was not just the American Intilligence aparatus that said Saddam maintained a stockpile of WMD. Bygones.
The bigger travesty would be to leave before we had secured the nation for a Democratically elected government. The government is in place, now we need to assist it in slowly taking over responsibility for the nation from our fine men and women serving their to help the Iraqi people to and protect the freedoms you so flipantly take for granted.
More like the freedoms you so flippantly are willing to disregard.
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