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Monday, October 02, 2006
Politics: Today’s “I can’t believe they said that”
This is a nonsports entry. If you don’t want to join the party, don’t be a party-pooper. Just skip it.
On Meet The Press, a U.S. politician said this regarding Iraq:
SEN. DeWINE: But you know, on reflection, this is their country. There’s a lot of things going wrong. You blame someone who is there. Still does not change that we’re not in Iraq primarily for the Iraqis. We’re in Iraq for us. We’re—have to do what we have to do, and it goes back to what the three generals—three military leaders said. It would be a total disaster for us to leave. It is in our self-interest, the interest to protect American families, that we are in Iraq. That’s why we’re there.
Wow. “On reflection” this is their country? On reflection?
“We’re in Iraw for us”? Wow. For us?
“Our self-interest”? Double-wow! These are typically words of an invading-and-occupying nation, that the interests of the occupier takes precedence over the citizens of that nation.
I know that most people (in USA and in Iraq) believe that the “coalition” forces should leave, but for a U.S. senator to actually say on national televison, in the context of a political show, that he has to think about the citizens of Iraq owning their land, and that the U.S. must remain an occupying nation for their own self-interests ahead of Iraqis is..... triple-wow.
Of course that doesn’t mean that leaving Iraq is in the self-interest of the Iraqis. Unless an all-out civil war and the increased recruiting power of terrorist organizations is what they want…