Archive for March 23rd, 2003
by Tom on Mar.23, 2003, under Uncategorized
Keep getting spam forwards from people regarding the war in Iraq and things related to it. The thing that annoys/amuses me the most about them is the indifference people see between Osama Bin Laden and Iraq.
News flash, people. The war on Iraq and 9/11 are two separate things. Bin Laden (and his terrorists) launched the attack on America on September 11th. Iraq’s just a country who we’ve never been fond of who was managing to put together a nice collection of illegal weapons. They are indirectly connected, though. The 9/11 attacks (note “attacks” being plural; there was more than one… I can imagine people who lost family on the attack on the Pentagon love hearing how 9/11 was the day terrorists attacked the World Trade Center) caught America off guard; America hadn’t been attacked like that since Pearl Harbor, and the belief of Americans was that wars come and wars go, but it’s not like we’ll ever see anything happen here. America was the biggest kid on the playground; you didn’t screw with him, but you never really saw him fight. With the cheap shot of 9/11, America was pissed off that they let one get past them, and that their reputation was ruined. Then, when they went to get Bin Laden, they failed. So, along comes Iraq, who America doesn’t like in the first place. They piss off America, who responds the same way that any powerful person would. They go to beat the hell out of them.
That’s really all I have to say about the war. Now stop sending the damned forwards.
