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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

Is this the Iraq that Bush intended?  No.  However, the U.S. "mission" was accomplished a long time ago - in the president's mind – when Saddam ceased to control Iraq.  Now that we've done what we set out to do, the Iraqi people are free to fight one another in whatever manner and for whatever purposes they see fit.  Now that is what freedom is all about.  Again, I'm being sarcastic.  Truthfully, we're reverting back to our old ways here in America.  111 Iraqi deaths in suicide attacks is hardly worth mentioning – unless a few American soldiers happened to be killed as well.  Is it ethically compatible to invade a country to (ostensibly) liberate its people, sacrificing our own soldiers for their freedom, and simultaneously devaluing those selfsame lives upon the diminution of value of our own as targets?  Of course it isn't.  However, there's no ethical problem here – because we aren't in Iraq for the sake of its people.  We never were.  Then why are we there?  Good question.

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