Dan Lyons
~ Thursday, October 23, 2003
 
WORLD IS NOT BETTER OFF: When Bush hears about thousands protesting against him in Australia, he responds with his usual slogan: "Surely the world is better off without Saddam in power!" However:
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I might be better off with a fancy car if it was free; but would I be better off if I paid an excessive PRICE for a fancy car? Is the world better off because we incurred the invasion-price to topple Saddam? The tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, maimed or wounded in our attack are not better off. Nor the further thousands of casualties from our failure to restore law'norder in Iraq. /
Nor the thousands of GIs wounded so far in our campaign (2 in ten suffering serious brain-injuries, facing perhaps a fate worse than death).
Nor, perhaps, the Iraqi women (50% of the population!) who are already moving from relative liberation under atheist Saddam into Muslim subjugation--and right now are being raped wholesale by gangsters running wild, because we recklessly dissolved Iraq police and army, being unable to restore lawn'order ourselves! (If pregnancy results, they resort to at-home abortions, lest they be killed by their own male relatives, to save the Family Honor!)
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What about the rest of the world, including U.S.? Expert observers agree that our invasion has inflamed world-Muslims even further, recruiting more terrorists from all over the world. (Osama must be delighted in his cave!) / Also, our spectacular failure to diminish guerilla attacks in Iraq (now 35 a day!) displays our humiliating weakness to terrorists worldwide, and turns Iraq into a training ground for terrorists (like Chechnya). / Also, the rift caused by the invasion between U.S. and the rest of the world has undoubtedly weakened international cooperation in nabbing terrorists. / Also the billions and billions of dollars we have spent and need yet to spend on our Iraq fiasco--such prodigal expenditure means even less money for our pathetically underfunded 'Home Defense' campaign.
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To answer Bush: No, the world is NOT better off because we moved Saddam from power into hiding; the whole world will be paying an excessive price for that modest improvement.

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