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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

quotes of the day

Senator John Kerry:
"How many of you don't think Iraq was a mistake?"

James Healy:
"How many of you would prefer Saddam Hussein to still be in power?
How many of you would prefer prisoners in Saddam's jails to be still having their fingernails removed to entertain him?
How many of you would prefer Saddam to be free to build new conspiracies at his whim?
How many of you would prefer Uday Hussein to still have the option of murdering people in acid baths when he fancies their wives?
How many of you would prefer Qusay Hussein to still have the option of playing Keep Up With Uday.
How many of you would prefer the Hussein family business to still be free to launch eight year wars with Iran in which a million or more will die for nothing?
How many of you would prefer the Hussein family business to still be in a position to invade Kuwait?
How many of you are happy that Kofi Annan's son Kojo was receiving cash from elements within Saddam Hussein's government?
How many of you would prefer Saddam Hussein to be in a position to offer medical treatment to Abu Musab Al Zarqawi after he fled Afghanistan because it was less fun fighting the American army than it was terrorising unarmed Afghan men, women and children?
How many of you would prefer Abu Musab Al Dead Zarqawi to be still alive and facing possible UN sanctions?
How many of you would prefer Saddam Hussein to be in a position to continue offering sponsorship programmes for suicide bombers in Palestine?
How many of you would prefer Saddam Hussein to still be in a position to help those lovable air hostess murdering goons in Al Quaeda whenever the mood took him?
How many of you think Al Quaeda enjoys fighting the American army as much as it enjoyed murdering air hostesses and crashing planes into buildings?
How many of you think the late Osama Bin Laden enjoyed life skulking in the hills of Pakistan as much as he enjoyed being the big murderer about town in Afghanistan?
How many of you think the brave Mullah Omar is enjoying his putative retirement as a goatherd on the side of a mountain in Pakistan?
How many of you think the other brave hero of the Taliban, whatever his name is, Mullah Titface or something, how many of you think he's enjoying the goatherding as much as etc etc?
How many of you think the Taliban should have been left to murder, violate and enslave yet another generation of the people of Afghanistan while the UN provided social services for their abysmal toe rag regime effectively propping up a murderocracy?
How many of you think the pseudo journalists of Independent Newspapers and the Irish Times will lift the word murderocracy from this blog?

5 Comments:

Blogger Schneewittchen said...

Hear hear James!
And I will add something I myself lifted from author Nick Cohen for my own blog; to oppose the liberation of Iraq (and Afghanistan) is to oppose the overthrow of the most fascist and evil of fascist regimes.

5:43 AM  
Blogger Genevieve Netz said...

James, you're right, and on behalf of those in the U.S. who have similar opinions, thank you for this essay.

6:37 AM  
Blogger Schneewittchen said...

Actually I particularly like 'murderocracy' because the Taliban look like a bunch of crows.

12:55 AM  
Blogger heelers said...

Schnee and Gen!
Together we stand.
James

1:45 AM  
Blogger Chamki said...

I have no opinion as yet.
I feel left out.
I don't know what I think about all of this. I feel incapable of making a statement.

7:18 PM  

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