operation iraqi freedom

[lauralh]

Whatever you believe, you can't be too disappointed by this kind of shit:

"Today, we are very, very happy. It is a great day. Saddam is finished. Do you know where he is? Is he dead? He will burn in hell," said a man holding his young child in his arms.

I mean, fuck all the machiavellian undertones. Even I can't be too cynical about it.


edit: as usual, John Scalzi says what I meant much better.

another edit: cough cough.

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[sisyphus.livejournal.com]

Then someone had to ruin Scalzi's point with some dumb shit like this, which should make people fall down laughing:

Bush definitely deserves a tremendous hand for killing Saddam. That one act alone should make the US dramatically safer; probably safer than toppling the Taliban, though that was a good thing as well...

[netropy.livejournal.com]

"No matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, if you are incapable of feeling at least a tiny amount of joy at watching ordinary Iraqis celebrate this, then you are lost to the ideological left. and let me also add that if you are incapable of feeling badly that we even had to use force in the first place, you are ideologically lost to the right. And I would implore both of those groups to leave the room now... it's like ice skating, you throw out the high score and the low score..."
-- jon stewart, from the daily show last night.