Looking Back To Pre-Iraq

The last few days I’ve been finding entertainment in going back and rereading some of the anti-warriors statements in view of what actually happened in Iraq. Some of them, like this interview with George Galloway, British MP, in the Palestinian Chronicle are downright hilarious now. Let’s rehash and see how George did:

War is not inevitable. Wars are never inevitable, even when wars have begun they can be stopped. The enemy wants us to believe that it is inevitable because it hopes thereby to stun us with horror and paralyze us. So we have to continue to say that war is more likely than not but it is not inevitable and it can be stopped but it only can be stopped very quickly and with a huge movement of protests around the world and that’s what I was calling for today.

Bad call George. The “huge movement of protests around the world” did nothing to deter the war. Why? You assumed that all policy decisions are based on public opinion polls. But they’re not. Some decisions are based on principle. It’s a concept called leadership. A million Frenchmen protesting will do nothing to change a US policy based on conviction and principle.

The British foreign office is not with the war, the British foreign office which was cheating the Arabs when the Americans were still cowboys chasing the red Indians and exterminating them. The British foreign office knows the Arabs very well and it is strongly against the war because it knows that [Secretary General of the Arab League] Amr Moussa is right that the gates of Hell will be opened by this, and nobody knows what will emerge from those gates.

“The Americans were still cowboys chasing the red Indians……?” George, George, George. Hasn’t anyone ever told you that as a loony leftist you have to be politically correct? Calling Displaced And Disenfranchised Native Americans “red Indians” smacks of a smug elitism that your elitist colleagues are trying to stamp out. And what about those gates of Hell? They were opened. What happened? Looks to me like Satan came out to take Saddam, just like was predicted by the Gods of South Park. It’s too bad they took Baghdad Bob with them. He had such a future here as a political analyst for CNN.

But my opposition to imperialism is greater than my opposition to the character of the Iraqi regime. You have to make these choices in life. Imperialism is the biggest criminal in the world. America is the biggest rogue state in the world. Britain is an auxiliary of a criminal rogue state. So there is no choice but to stand beside the people of Iraq.

Would that be the imperialism of the Iraqi regime that attempted to annex Kuwait? Oh, yeah, American imperialism. Yep, we’re just out there creating an Empire, you know: colonizing, conquering, pillaging, subjugating, cleansing, destroying, spreading food, water and the UN, all the evil traits of the great imperialist nations of the past. And for some reason, I’m guessing your “standing beside the people of Iraq” was so long as you could stand beside them in Westminster – heck I’ll bet you were so brave that you may have even been willing to stand beside them in Brixton (provided you had ample security).

We have a saying in English, that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. And Saddam Hussein has one eye.

Well at least you’re smart enough to know that you’re blind. Otherwise you might have seen the evil that was Saddam’s Iraq.

We survive because we are not afraid and because there is some democratic space in our countries that wasn’t given to us; it had to be taken. Had to be fought for. All the freedoms we have had to be fought for, and they could be taken away.

You know, this almost makes sense, except that you fail to realize that you didn’t fight for that space. The men in the cemeteries of Normandy fought for it, but not you. And it is absolutely true, all the freedoms that we have fought for as a civilization could all be taken away. Just ask the people of Iraq. They can tell all about how the government you support has denied them any of the freedoms you recognize as being so fragile.

The Iraqis have resisted all these years the bombing and the siege without surrendering.

The Arabs and Muslims are potentially great, I just gave you three examples. And you know in Cuba, each and every day, the teacher asks the school children in every school, what do you want to when you grow up? And the children answer: I want to be like Che.

The Arabs have to have a mentality that says “I want to be like Hizbullah, I want to be like the Intifada, I want to be like the resisting Iraqis.” And if they can, nothing can stop them. Nothing.

Yep. They resisted twelve years of sporadic bombing, UN sanctions, and weapons inspections. They then “resisted” the US military for all of three weeks – and almost a third of that was because we had to stop and build highway rest stops so that we could go to the bathroom. But you’re absolutely right – the Iraqi’s never surrendered. Like Hizbullah and like the Intifada, they melted away into nothing. In the grand scheme of things they too are now insignificant. And you’re right nothing can stop them – there really isn’t anything to stop and nobody cares to waste the time stopping them anyway.

Let the Iraqi regime be like Che. He’s dead. We, on the other hand, have the task of helping the Iraqi people ahead of us. You be like Che, we have work to do.