I
TOLD YOU SO
by
James K. Sweeney
April 9, 2003
The war is over; the mop up will take another week or so. The Israeli
general, Moishe Dyan, when asked the secret of military victory responded:
“Fight Arabs.” Again Arab “leaders” have been
proven to be useless blowhards, full of what makes the grass grow.
They are cowards, bullies, medieval and worse.
Iraq is about the size of California with a population around 25 million.
It was conquered (yes, conquered) in about 2 weeks. Dictators the
world over are simply in shock and awe over that indisputable fact.
Generals, whether of dictatorships or democracies, are stunned. America
has, literally, created a new type of war. The American military can
kill the bad guys without destroying the country. Iraq was a remarkable
military and political event. It was executed without wreaking havoc
on the civilian population and at a loss of something less than 200
deaths, half of which were accidents, not from enemy fire. If that
doesn’t send a clear message to North Korea and the rest, nothing
will. There has never before in history been a military campaign of
this caliber, quality and compassion for the ordinary, non-military
citizen.
Plus two more points to ponder:
1. Iraq, strategically located in the Middle East, is now and for
years to come, America’s military staging area for whatever
other action we choose to take in that region. We no longer need to
buy off the treacherous Turks or beg the disgusting Saudis for permission
to use their land or air space. We will simply use Iraq. We no longer
need any of them for staging or forward basing. The Iraqis will love
it; America will protect Iraq from the Israelis, the Iranians and
everyone else. Allah be praised; this is better than 72 virgins. It’s
Heaven on Earth.
2. OPEC will be hard pressed to strangle or limit the production of
oil. Iraq, with the second largest oil reserves in the world, will
happily produce all the oil needed at the margin to reduce OPEC’s
power to strip the West of its cash. The Iraqis will be happy to sell
us or others whatever we need as they have, and will continue to have,
an almost endless need for cash.
As for the left, the peaceniks, buffoons like R. W. Apple from the
New York Times (he’s the little fat guy), Maureen Dowdy (she’s
the little fat girl), Turkish politicians, the president of France,
habitat of surrender monkeys, the chancellor of Germany, home of armies
which haven’t won a war in over 100 years and assorted other
fools, including Time magazine which breathlessly reported (hoped?)
that the Pentagon got it all wrong, those mindless network anchors,
e.g. Pretty Peter Jennings, the immigrant from socialist and cowardly
Canada, who repeatedly said that Iraq was a “quagmire”,
that Rumsfeld was wrong and Clinton’s generals right; that the
Iraqi fighters (now there’s an oxymoron) were highly motivated
and were proving tougher that expected; and all of that traitorous,
unthinking, know-nothing ilk: they were wrong. Dead wrong. Again.
And who was right? We were. The President; the best security cabinet
in generations; the neo-cons; the chicken hawks; and those of us the
losers call imperialists, corporate lackeys, killers and worse. All
of them were wrong and all of us were right.
Despite their consistently miserable batting average - nearly zero
as to prescience but high on snotty remarks - the literati are now
on to their next topic. Having been wrong, wrong ,wrong about the
war, about turning a few hour’s problem of some rag-tag guerillas
attacking supply lines into poor Pentagon planning and “Rummy’s”
arrogance to his generals, now these same useless idiots are wringing
their verbal hands that we cannot win the peace if we fail to defer
to the United Nations, fail to grant a major role to the international
community, i.e., France, Germany Russia and Turkey. (Why the wrongiks
never include Japan, India or Spain in their notion of the international
community is an interesting question, don’t you think?)
Mikhail Gorbachev, loser par excellence, while in Lebanon, opines
that the United States should turn Iraq over to the United Nations;
Kofi the Corrupt chimes in seconding the motion so he can continue
to ladle out more U.N. patronage - your tax dollars at work - to the
African thieves he calls leaders; Vicente Fox, with salsa all over
his greasy face, for going against his “friend” Dubya,
Jimmy Carter, certainly one of our best war-time presidents, and the
Draft-Dodger in Chief, now each and all singing the same song: we
won the war, let’s lose the peace.
That is not going to happen, not now, not with this president and
not with the majority of Americans. We, the people, have finally seen
through the loser’s rhetoric. They are losers because they were
wrong. Dead wrong. Again. Still.