Iraq War
We all suppress our consciences to some degree. We deliberately delude ourselves. Play little mind games inside our own heads, to try and justify our own behaviour. How often have you heard exponents of the arms industry come up with the corporate line – “well if we didn’t sell arms to them, somebody else would.” BULL…and also…SHIT. They might, but then again how about discovering humans possess a backbone: “We decided this system is mad, and we’re going to begin a more intelligent future by being the first country with the strength to stop selling arms.” Backbone. Many things perceived the wrong way round. Take Blaire’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Comments in the jingoistic IQ-less tabloids extolled his impressive “statesmanship.”
Bull.
Shit.
To go along with America towards all out war was in reality a sign of weakness. If he had stood up and said “NO MORE WAR.” He would have been politically shot to ribbons by his critics – they would say he was weak – so to avoid their wrath, he crumbled. Blair did not stand strong, he was controlled by those around him. He didn’t have the back-bone to be different. Chiraq, on the other hand, was independent, calm and stood by the United Nations. Despite the French being called “cheese eating surrender monkeys” by their playground critics (slandering the righteous is more truth persecution). It takes greater strength to give calm love, than to lose control and wage war. And where did the “War Against Terrorism” get us? Within a week of the war, all the major countries involved in the invasion were on maximum alert for terrorist attacks! And the terrorism has stuck now for well over a year after the “end” of the war! But wasn’t the war supposed to stop terrorism? Obviously it doesn’t, what it did in reality was to give the terrorist groups ammunition and a target to shoot at. The United Nations would have provided a less tangible target – maybe 100 different countries involved could have diluted a potential menace, and shown that terrorism really isn’t going to work any more. Oh dear. And the weapons of mass destruction that Mr Blair and Bush so confidently asserted would be found? When the future finally arrived, the weapons didn’t. That’s the problem with predicting the future, like the past it is an illusion. It doesn’t exist, so any predictions of what is going to happen are subject to the forces of nature – it might not turn out how you expect. By exerting your ego on What Is There, or What Will Be There – trying to say the universe is like the model in your head, and not like what you can see – you are lining yourself up for a surprise. I mean if I had been Saddam, I’d have considered getting rid of the weapons, or even destroying them myself to win the psychological war, when it is totally clear the physical war cannot be won. To make the invading forces look silly. Hmm.
But then maybe the war had something to do with oil.
But then – but then – what do you do with an evil tyrant like Saddam was?