For the curious, here's the original article.
First off, we have the revelation that Saddam Hussein pretended to have WMDs so as to not appear weak to the Iranian regime. Turns out it didn't even have anything to do with us. In fact, the dictator who cried WMD seemed to be doing so as a cry for help if you ask me because it appears he was genuinely still scared of neighboring Iran, who he thought sought to annex the southern part of his country. He said contrary to the allegations of the Bush adminsitration in 2003, he never dealt with Al-Qaeda, even calling Osama Bin Laden a "zealot".
In fact (and this is a direct quote from the article):
"Hussein was quoted as saying that he was so concerned about radical Iranian leaders that he was ready to sign a security agreement with the United States guaranteeing protection from Iran."
Wow. I guess maybe we could have handled that whole Iraq situation with a little more finesse, lol... oh Christ.
Now we've all said it before, but I'll keep on saying it until new revelations stop coming out about how true it is: Shrub, you suck. Seriously, you suck dick dude. Now I realize those are harsh words, but come on, the country whose constitution you swore an oath to protect and defend gets attacked by religious zealots, and what do you do? (Besides sit silent for 7 friggin' minutes while New York City burns of course, you little Nero)? You doctor the evidence and lie to the United Nations and to your own citizens to create a false pretext for war--but that was only so we could go and get the bastards who perpetrated 9/11, right? Well, no, that wasn't the real agenda, just the stated agenda, and the will of the people, and your moral imperative...but as I believe Kant once put it, "imperative imshmerative". Lol.
So you invade the soveriegn nation of Iraq, one of the few remaining secular countries in the Middle East, because you don't like Saddam. He was a mean mean man who tried to kill your daddy and had to be taught a lesson, or as another theory goes you wanted to show up your pops and take the fight all the way to Baghdad like he was too pussy to do back in the '90's...but whatever the reason, it's clear you didn't have the best interests of this country at heart. That, or you're dumber than even our most pointed jokes could make you seem. Either way, you suck. We the American people ask that you accept this fact gracefully, without complaint, and that you go s a d and never darken our doorstep again.
I mean come on, the whole post-9/11 Al-Qaeda/Saddam Hussein bait and switch was so ridiculous, it'd be like if the next time one of your whacked out religious zealots blows up a doctor's clinic because they perform *gasp* abortions, we the American people held a press conference and said "Well, we're going to let the psycho-zealot who did this hide out in a cave in the still smoking crater of Waco indefinitely, but in the meantime we're going to blame this whole mess on a fascist secular politician who had nothing to do with this crime but nevertheless operates out of the same region and is really a bitch....Former President Bush, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but that village in Texas is going to be missing its idiot permanently from now on. To the gallows!
Lol I keed I keed. (Seriously, to any secret service personal reading this right now I assure you I am not a threat to national security...although in all seriousness hanging Bush would probably have a positive effect on our national security--I mean ha ha, oh once again, the jokes just keep coming ha ha ha...ha ha. Please don't kill me.)
Lol...anyway...
What annoys me the most about Bush's decision to invade Iraq instead of going after Bin Laden is the complete ignorance of history it shows, not only of his own father's Gulf War, but of the Middle East in general. Since at least the beginning of the 20th century, the Middle East has basically had two kinds of governments: iron-fisted securalist dictatorships, and Islamic fundamentalist theocracies. Neither have been all that great. But most of the region is such a powder-keg of disparate religious and ethnic groups, most of whom are ape-shit insane and want to kill each other, that unfortunately, those are the only kinds of government that seem to work in that region. Saddam may have been a genocidal tyrant, but at least by exercising the iron-fist of the dictator he kept all those factions in check and his country in a state of relative peace (which is a lot more than I can say for us, the supposed champions of democracy). I'm not defending his crimes, I'm just saying, at least we could understand his motivations because he was sane, at least we could negotiate with him. He may have been mean, but he wasn't totally out of his frakking mind, which the other guys, Saddam's arch nemeses the theocratic religious-zealots, indubitably are.
You can't reason with a religious-zealot. They cannot be bought, bargained with, nor even threatened. And that's because they live on another plain of reality. Unlike Middle Eastern secular dictators, unlike all sane rational people in difficult situations, they fervently believe in a fairytale. And I'm sorry to burst your bubble but that fairytale is religion.
You can't reason with a person who believes that God wants them to murder innocent people and that if they get killed in the process they'll go to heaven and live for eternity with a bunch of horny virgin sex-slaves. If I believed that, I'd probably be pretty hard to reason with too, lol.
As a psychology and neuroscience enthusiast, I have to point out though that whatever these people are suffering from there's no doubt in my mind that it's a form of mental illness. Now I'm not saying all religious belief if a sign of mental illness; I know people who use their fairytale-beliefs very constructively to help themselves live moral lives and do good in the world. But when religious belief turns otherwise psychologically healthy people into delusional psychopaths, then I'm afraid we have no choice but to call a spade a spade and label it what it is: a mental illness.
Of course we're far too sensitive in this country to do that officially, at least for now, but nevertheless we need to start taking this mental health epidemic seriously. Because that's what it is: a psychoactive memetic disease which spreads rapidly from host to host, and leaves its victims with delusions of grandeur and invulnerability coupled with a dark heart clouded by fear, bigotry, rage, hatred, blood-lust and a whole lotta repressed sexuality. Whatever causes these people to be so afflicted is a far more dangerous threat to public health than all the personality disorders put together! Narcissists are often verbally abusive and callous, but at least blowing up buildings containing as many people who disagree with them as possible isn't one of their MOs....
And isn't it interesting that the right-wing nut jobs are the ones who always insist on making the most fuss about radical Islam (they even renamed it IslamoFascism so it sounded cooler!), when theirs is the party that shelters, and I believe implicitly encourages, our own homegrown breed of terrorist: the Christian religious-zealot. And if you disagree with me calling these people "terrorists", read about all the people that Christian religious-zealots in this country have murdered for performing abortions, for being gay, and even, not as long ago as we'd like to think, for being black. And the thing is these people know they're terrorists, they're just proud of it because they're "God's" terrorists (which obviously makes them nothing like Al-Qaeda lol). I mean for Christ's sake, one of them intentionally borrowed Al-Qaeda's whole anthrax scare-tactic in 2001 to terrorize abortion doctors! If you don't believe me, read this wikipedia article documenting anti-abortion violence, and if you don't believe that then follow the sources or use Google for confirmation.
I'm telling you, religion makes people crazy. The one upshot of us electing a religious-zealot as president...twice...is that hopefully America got it out of her system. Sure we're an easily seduced country--we're the dumb blonde of the world stage (which incidentally is why I say Brittney Spears really is our most patriotic pop-star, lol)--but you gotta believe that we've learned our lesson about putting incompetent religious-zealot retards in power just because we want to have a beer with them after living with a president for eight frakkin' years who believed, among many other fantastically strange and wildly inaccurate things, that it was cool for him to never read a national security briefing because God would fill him in on the important stuff later. Lol. So say it with me America, just like the holocaust--religious-zealot retard-boy for president = NEVER AGAIN.
And maybe, just maybe, can we please start an honest conversation in this country about religious fundamentalism, one in which atheists can freely participate without fear of being labeled the anti-Christ just for leveling that dirtiest of attacks against blind religious faith, the factually based argument?
Nah, I didn't think so, lol. Maybe in the next few years though! I'm sure somebody can figure out how to use this a distracting wedge issue next election cycle, lol. Anyway, thanks for reading America! (It's more than our former President ever did for us lol). Regardless of whether you read this article and agreed, disagreed, or immediately began tracing my IP address so you could come and blow my house up lol, please feel free to offer feedback and rant along in the comments section!
Peace.
-Icarus Lear
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