Saturday, April 10, 2004
It's About You
An Open Note To The Iraqi Governing Council
I read it again today: Council members have expressed increasing anger over the U.S. siege, calling it a "mass punishment" for 200,000 residents (of Fallujah). [DANIEL COONEY, AP].
Fine. Be angry with us. Pee on our leg all you want over what we do, what we need to do to forward our mission. I don't friggin' care.
You people seem to have lost the thread here, somehow lost track of the situation in which you find yourself. Lost your grip on the real world.
Let me help:
The United State and her allies invaded and now occupy your country. That's right: you lost a war to us. We won. You people couldn't keep your house in order, sometimes setting fire to your neighbor's houses and even occasionally butchering your brothers and sisters within your own house. Then you asshats started getting anxious. Started getting all uppity, thinking you had the right stuff to take us on… Shooting at our planes, ignoring the demands we'd made of you the last time we kicked your ass, plotting to kill one of our former presidents.
You felt free to give us the royal bird. Fine. Look what it got you.
So there you are now. An occupied country. Read it again: OCCUPIED. We are there for as long as we see fit. WE make the decisions. WE decide when we leave. WE decide when you are capable of running your own affairs again. So get angry all you want. Whine, moan, grumble and gripe. Whatever.
But as long as you people can't prove yourself mature enough to begin that rather difficult process of running whatever form of democracy you end up creating, we will remain in your country. Dominating both it, and you.
As long as you have personal armies (??!) you will have a foreign invader occupying your land. As long has you allow the people who used to run your country free reign to bear arms against us (and your own citizens, by the way) you will have a foreign invader occupying your country.
Believe me. We'd like nothing better than to pack up and leave your "beautiful homeland." But until you people can run it in a mature and responsible way we have to stay. We've been through this before, you know. We were there back in 1991. And we agreed to leave on the condition that you people would stay out of trouble.
What do you do instead? You go right back to beating up on your own people, stockpiling all sorts of nasty weapons you all said you wouldn't, and pissing us off some more. Frankly, I'm tired of you all.
You people are the best prepared of all Arab people to strap together a functioning democracy. You're secular enough, you're well educated enough. You certainly have plenty of personal and collective motivation to do this thing right. And you have a sense of pride (which we're really counting on, actually, though you don't understand why yet, I guess).
So put your house in order and prove to us, and the rest of the world, that when we leave we won't have to turn right around again and pay you yet another visit, spilling more of our very precious blood, and quite a bit of our treasure, putting things right for you.
Until then, please excuse us if we happen to ignore your bitching. If you all are so capable of running your own affairs then show us how it's done.
...
Saddam? What? You're blaming all the past indiscretions of your nation on that one guy? That disheveled, corrupt and pathetically weak man we found in a hole?
Remember how embarrassed you all were that he surrendered so cravenly? He encouraged all of you to go out and resist the invader. Fight to the death! Defend your homeland even if you die trying! Ha. What bullshit. And you let him run your affairs for 35 years! This isn't about him. This is about you.
And you damn well know it. That's why you were so embarrassed. We all heard the collective forehead slap when you realized that you all had been snookered. Badly.
You see: We, too, have noticed all those rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s running like sand through your streets. All those weapons every single person seems to have ready access too. What do you people do? Hand them out as party favors?
So, in a land of 35 million people, with what seems like 70 million small arms of one variety or another, all those armed people sit idly by while a coward struts around your capital like he owns the place. Again: This isn't about him. It's about you.
All this vigor you all seem to be applying to trying to oust us might have been a little more useful if had been applied to, well, ousting Saddam. You know?
Sorry to put such a fine point on it, but we're in your country because you people chose to suffer the decisions and depredations of your "fearless" leader. You people think you have the balls to defeat a fully-armed, extremely well-trained, professional military (the best the world has ever seen, by the way), then why in hell didn't you have the balls to take on the 4th-rate "army" backing up Saddam Hussein?
No. This isn't about him. It's about YOU.
An Open Note To The Iraqi Governing Council
I read it again today: Council members have expressed increasing anger over the U.S. siege, calling it a "mass punishment" for 200,000 residents (of Fallujah). [DANIEL COONEY, AP].
Fine. Be angry with us. Pee on our leg all you want over what we do, what we need to do to forward our mission. I don't friggin' care.
You people seem to have lost the thread here, somehow lost track of the situation in which you find yourself. Lost your grip on the real world.
Let me help:
The United State and her allies invaded and now occupy your country. That's right: you lost a war to us. We won. You people couldn't keep your house in order, sometimes setting fire to your neighbor's houses and even occasionally butchering your brothers and sisters within your own house. Then you asshats started getting anxious. Started getting all uppity, thinking you had the right stuff to take us on… Shooting at our planes, ignoring the demands we'd made of you the last time we kicked your ass, plotting to kill one of our former presidents.
You felt free to give us the royal bird. Fine. Look what it got you.
So there you are now. An occupied country. Read it again: OCCUPIED. We are there for as long as we see fit. WE make the decisions. WE decide when we leave. WE decide when you are capable of running your own affairs again. So get angry all you want. Whine, moan, grumble and gripe. Whatever.
But as long as you people can't prove yourself mature enough to begin that rather difficult process of running whatever form of democracy you end up creating, we will remain in your country. Dominating both it, and you.
As long as you have personal armies (??!) you will have a foreign invader occupying your land. As long has you allow the people who used to run your country free reign to bear arms against us (and your own citizens, by the way) you will have a foreign invader occupying your country.
Believe me. We'd like nothing better than to pack up and leave your "beautiful homeland." But until you people can run it in a mature and responsible way we have to stay. We've been through this before, you know. We were there back in 1991. And we agreed to leave on the condition that you people would stay out of trouble.
What do you do instead? You go right back to beating up on your own people, stockpiling all sorts of nasty weapons you all said you wouldn't, and pissing us off some more. Frankly, I'm tired of you all.
You people are the best prepared of all Arab people to strap together a functioning democracy. You're secular enough, you're well educated enough. You certainly have plenty of personal and collective motivation to do this thing right. And you have a sense of pride (which we're really counting on, actually, though you don't understand why yet, I guess).
So put your house in order and prove to us, and the rest of the world, that when we leave we won't have to turn right around again and pay you yet another visit, spilling more of our very precious blood, and quite a bit of our treasure, putting things right for you.
Until then, please excuse us if we happen to ignore your bitching. If you all are so capable of running your own affairs then show us how it's done.
...
Saddam? What? You're blaming all the past indiscretions of your nation on that one guy? That disheveled, corrupt and pathetically weak man we found in a hole?
Remember how embarrassed you all were that he surrendered so cravenly? He encouraged all of you to go out and resist the invader. Fight to the death! Defend your homeland even if you die trying! Ha. What bullshit. And you let him run your affairs for 35 years! This isn't about him. This is about you.
And you damn well know it. That's why you were so embarrassed. We all heard the collective forehead slap when you realized that you all had been snookered. Badly.
You see: We, too, have noticed all those rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s running like sand through your streets. All those weapons every single person seems to have ready access too. What do you people do? Hand them out as party favors?
So, in a land of 35 million people, with what seems like 70 million small arms of one variety or another, all those armed people sit idly by while a coward struts around your capital like he owns the place. Again: This isn't about him. It's about you.
All this vigor you all seem to be applying to trying to oust us might have been a little more useful if had been applied to, well, ousting Saddam. You know?
Sorry to put such a fine point on it, but we're in your country because you people chose to suffer the decisions and depredations of your "fearless" leader. You people think you have the balls to defeat a fully-armed, extremely well-trained, professional military (the best the world has ever seen, by the way), then why in hell didn't you have the balls to take on the 4th-rate "army" backing up Saddam Hussein?
No. This isn't about him. It's about YOU.
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