{"id":811,"date":"2006-03-18T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/03\/18\/a-country-that-could-only-be-ruled-by-"},"modified":"2006-03-18T12:19:54","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T16:19:54","slug":"a-country-that-could-only-be-ruled-by-a-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/18\/a-country-that-could-only-be-ruled-by-a-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"A Country That Could Only Be Ruled By a Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8165'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\nimfuror.gif\" width=\"275\" height=\"383\" align=\"left\">Five towns in rural Vermont have passed resolutions calling for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/vermont\/articles\/2006\/03\/18\/small_town_provokes_big_outrage\/\"> Impeachment<br \/>\n          of President Bush<\/a>. For what? The list of his sins grows<br \/>\n        weekly but includes malfeasance, misfeasance, lying, extortion, withholding<br \/>\n        evidence, illegal fundraising, misinforming Congress, illegal slush funds,<br \/>\n        persecution of US citizens, but worst of all, gross incompetence resulting<br \/>\n        in a squandering of US resources, thousands of American lives, tens of<br \/>\n        thousands of other innocent lives, and a betrayal of American ideals<br \/>\n        it will take us generations to recover from.<\/p>\n<p>As far as we are concerned, the only question left is who will do time and who will be alowed to slink off into the shadows and cesspools of historical ignominy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But exhibits A-Z remain the instigation and prosecution<br \/>\n        of the war. Four and a half years after 9\/11, three years after the invasion<br \/>\n        of Iraq,<br \/>\n        and our enemies are more numerous and more fiercely dedicated to our<br \/>\n        destruction. Usama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi<br \/>\n        are all still at large, podcasting and video blogging to fame and iconhood<br \/>\n        in the Muslim world.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Correct us if we are wrong, but didn&#8217;t we just 60 years<br \/>\n        ago, take on the most powerful evil empire in the history of the earth,<br \/>\n        led by evil incarnate Adolf Hitler,<br \/>\n        as well as the Italians of Il Duce and the millions of fanatical Japanese,<br \/>\n        and vanquished them absolutely. And did it between December 7, 1941 (Pearl<br \/>\n        Harbor Day) and the Japanese surrender in 1945?<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And our involvement in World War 1 was even shorter! The United States<br \/>\n        declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. The final Armistice was signed<br \/>\n        on Nov. 11, 1918, just two and a half years later.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">And these were WORLD wars! We thought technology and<br \/>\n        smart weapons was supposed to SHORTEN wars, not lengthen them. We thought<br \/>\n        the<br \/>\n        Israelis<br \/>\n        were pointing<br \/>\n        the way to the<br \/>\n        future with the economical 6-day war, or the Yom Kippur war, largely<br \/>\n        completed over a holiday three-day weekend.&nbsp; This is clearly the<br \/>\n        way to go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But, NOOOOOooooo, George had to get us bogged down is<br \/>\n        a quagmire of Nation Building, amidst dysfunctional local government,<br \/>\n        sectarian violence and mounting hatred<br \/>\n        of the obvious outsiders reigning over the whole sad, miserable landscape-<br \/>\n        US.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We have to face it &#8211; Iraq is not now and probably never<br \/>\n        has been a cohesive country in the modern sense of the word. It is an<br \/>\n        artificial construct<br \/>\n        created<br \/>\n        less than 100 years<br \/>\n        ago out of the rubble of the Ottoman empire and handed over to an extended<br \/>\n        family of Arab nomads<br \/>\n        so that western oil companies would have somebody to negotiate with about<br \/>\n        the extraction of precious black lifeblood the world has come to depend<br \/>\n        on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It contains irreconcilable centuries-old antagonisms,<br \/>\n        feuds, rivalries and hatreds between Sh&#8217;ites, Sunnis and Kurds which<br \/>\n        have only been contained<br \/>\n        temporarily by iron-fisted regimes, repression and violence.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">At the trial of Saddam Hussein we have heard again and<br \/>\n        again that he was a monster of historical proportions, and it is undoubtedly<br \/>\n        true. But<br \/>\n        the Western powers that created Iraq created an Abomination of a country<br \/>\n        that could only be ruled by a monster.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Sadly, as is becoming increasing clear, now we have<br \/>\n        become that monster.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">impeachment article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/vermont\/articles\/2006\/03\/18\/small_town_provokes_big_outrage\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five towns in rural Vermont have passed resolutions calling for the Impeachment of President Bush. For what? The list of his sins grows weekly but includes malfeasance, misfeasance, lying, extortion, withholding evidence, illegal fundraising, misinforming Congress, illegal slush funds, persecution &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/03\/18\/a-country-that-could-only-be-ruled-by-a-monster\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}