US financing the insurgents? "Support the troops" indeed.
Let's review;
- We attacked Saddam because he was an ally of Osama. Uh, wait...
- We attacked Saddam because he had yellowcake uranium from Nigeria. Oops, no...
- We attacked Saddam because he had chemical weapons? Sorry.
- How about we attacked Saddam because we believe that Iraq would be better off as a democracy?
Right... no objections? That's it then, "we did it to create a free and democratic Iraq".
So to help incubate this hypothetical democratic society in Iraq, our troops are now fighting insurgents. The Iraqis took our rhetoric at face value - so they demanded an election. That election has now taken place and the fundamental(ist) result is essentially that Iran won the Iraq election.
Oops, that's not what we had in mind at all. What are we going to do?
Here's an idea; since we don't like the government that they elected, we'll start supporting the insurgents.
According to the Asia Times, the US is now buying guns, rpg's, ammunition and other light weaponry from Pakistan and providing it to the Ba'ath militia to fight against the Shi'ite elected government.
Let that sink in for a moment.
What part of "supporting the troops" is served by providing guns to their enemies? Didn't these guys learn anything from their experience in Iran Contra?
Can someone please give me a definition of "providing aid and comfort to the enemy" that the above story would not exemplify? This isn't the kind of rhetorical "providing aid and comfort" that right wingers claim war critics do, but the kind of literal aid inherent in providing actual bullets to actual enemies.
posted by Lumberjack @ 8:58 AM
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The cynic in me says that it would benefit the perpetual war ideology of this administration, as evidenced by the writings of the PNAC, to ensure that insurgents have arms to fight us. The more arms they have, the more we can justify continuing to fight them.
Isn't it sad that I've become this jaded?
It is indeed sad, but this story has the ring of plausibility because the only reason that the new Shiite government would be interested in keeping the Americans around is if we prove our worth to them in perpetual war against their insurgents.
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