- Sunday's capture of Saddam Hussein made it a great day
- a great day for empty rhetoric and meaningless posturing by politicians
and journalists.
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- We were told that now that the Iraqis can see that Saddam
Hussein isn't coming back to power - as though they couldn't figure that
out for themselves with 130,000 foreign troops occupying their country.
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- But in the wonderland occupied by politicians and journalists,
the capture of Hussein must mean that all the resisters - also known as
"loyalists of the old regime" - would have no more reason to
resist.
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- Some politicians said that if anti-war protesters had
their gotten way, Hussein would be in his palace today, instead of in jail.
Yes, and if the anti-war protesters had gotten their way, several hundred
Americans and thousands of Iraqis would be alive today, instead of dead.
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- The press played its part in the celebration. Wolf Blitzer
of CNN said that Hussein's capture proves to the world that "the President
of the United States means business" - whatever that means.
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- In fact, we've known all along that George Bush means
business - the business of getting reelected.
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- There were plenty of TV pictures of Iraqis firing AK-47s
into the air. But no inquiring minds bothered to ask how everyday Iraqis
could be carrying AK-47s out in the open, when the American occupiers have
imposed strict gun-control edicts and are at war with resisters.
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- Liberation
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- Donald Rumsfeld said that now at last the Iraqis can
be free in spirit, as well as in fact.
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- Ah yes, liberated Iraq. It is now a free country. George
Bush has liberated it.
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- How has Iraq been liberated? Let me count the ways .
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- 1. The country is occupied by a foreign power.
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- 2. Its officials are appointed by that foreign power.
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- 3. Its citizens must carry ID cards.
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- 4. They must submit to searches of their persons and
cars at checkpoints and roadblocks.
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- 5. They must be in their homes by curfew time.
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- 6. Many towns are ringed with barbed wire.
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- 7. The occupiers have imposed strict gun-control laws,
preventing ordinary citizens from defending themselves - making robberies,
rapes, and assaults quite common.
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- 8. Trade with some countries is banned by the occupying
authorities.
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- 9. The occupiers have decreed that certain electoral
outcomes won't be permitted.
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- 10. Families are held hostage until they reveal the whereabouts
of wanted resisters - much like the Nazis held innocent French people hostage
during World War II.
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- 11. Protests are outlawed.
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- 12. Private homes are raided or demolished - with no
due process of law.
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- 13. The occupiers have created a fiat currency and imposed
it on the populace.
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- This is liberation in the NewSpeak language of politics.
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- Words like freedom just don't seem to mean what they
used to, do they?
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- Harry Browne org
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