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06/22/2003 Archived Entry: "OC Register on Rummy's 4th of July plans"
OC Register on Rummy's 4th of July plans
Orange County Register reports that Rummy's office is contacting any city that has applied for a pyro permit for July 4th, in an effort to get them to tie the Iraq invasion to Independence Day celebrations. They even came up with a spiffy name - 'Operation Tribute to Freedom.'
I thought July 4th already was a tribute to freedom. This sounds like something a bit different, and it smells like nationalist propaganda bullshit.
Perhaps Rumsfeld and his fellows think it’s time to stage-manage another round of administration-friendly patriotism now that, when left to their own devices, many patriotic Americans instead are supporting the troops by asking the Bush administration: Why did you commit our forces to kill and die in a war without good cause? Where is proof of the "imminent threat" you cited with such certainty in justifying the abandonment of two centuries of U.S. tradition and "preemptively" attacking another nation? If you cause people to be killed (including 139 Americans, at least 3,240 Iraqi civilians and probably tens of thousands of conscripts) without good cause, isn’t that murder? Why do you tell critics to be patient, that these things take time, when that’s the exact argument you rejected from the UN weapons inspectors? Why are the oilfields the only things that are secure in Iraq, where you’ve permitted even atomic materials to be looted? Why have you committed our forces indefinitely, with no exit strategy, to a country where they’re under daily attack? Huh, why?
This is Rummy's idea of patriotism. Be sure to scrape it off your shoes before you go in the house.
