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Sep. 9th, 2004 09:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akujunkanAccording to the British website to which I turn for news, the American death toll in Iraq has just reached 1,000 lives.
One thousand lives. I'm sitting here trying to comprehend what a large number of people that is. I can't even name one hundred people that I know at the moment. Wasn't this war supposed to be finished anyway? (I'm not even going to bother asking how many Americans have died in Afghanistan, because who remembers where that is, anyway? Certainly not the American news media...)
The article quotes bush as saying: "No matter how many times Senator Kerry flip-flops, we were right to make America safer by removing Saddam Hussein from power."
My question is this: What threat did Saddam ever pose to us? I know about a whole lot of threats he didn't pose: nuclear weapons capabilities, al Qaida ties, WMDs, chemical weapons, but what threat did he pose?
As I mentioned, the news media is focused a whole lot on supporting their corporate sponsors and not so much on providing things like news. So I'm asking all of you, seriously asking, what threat did Saddam pose? Has anyone seen anything out there documenting dangers Iraq really, honestly, posed to the United States? (Of course, it could be argued that Iraq, as a nation hostile to the U.S., posed a threat, but what I'm asking about pertinant or imminent threats here.)
I don't want to be cynical about this anymore because too many people have died for that. I'd like to hear that there was a point, and not that this was some horrid fuck up by bush, which is what seems most likely from where I'm standing.
One thousand lives. I'm sitting here trying to comprehend what a large number of people that is. I can't even name one hundred people that I know at the moment. Wasn't this war supposed to be finished anyway? (I'm not even going to bother asking how many Americans have died in Afghanistan, because who remembers where that is, anyway? Certainly not the American news media...)
The article quotes bush as saying: "No matter how many times Senator Kerry flip-flops, we were right to make America safer by removing Saddam Hussein from power."
My question is this: What threat did Saddam ever pose to us? I know about a whole lot of threats he didn't pose: nuclear weapons capabilities, al Qaida ties, WMDs, chemical weapons, but what threat did he pose?
As I mentioned, the news media is focused a whole lot on supporting their corporate sponsors and not so much on providing things like news. So I'm asking all of you, seriously asking, what threat did Saddam pose? Has anyone seen anything out there documenting dangers Iraq really, honestly, posed to the United States? (Of course, it could be argued that Iraq, as a nation hostile to the U.S., posed a threat, but what I'm asking about pertinant or imminent threats here.)
I don't want to be cynical about this anymore because too many people have died for that. I'd like to hear that there was a point, and not that this was some horrid fuck up by bush, which is what seems most likely from where I'm standing.
