Mark Stein once again
nails the hypocrisy of the "Stop The War" crowd:
In late September 2001 Mr Inyadullah was holed up in Peshawar awaiting the call to arms against the Great Satan and offered this pithy soundbite to the Telegraph's David Blair:
"The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death."
That's it in a nutshell - or in a nut's hell. And, like Mr Inyadullah, if it's Pepsi or death, the fellows on the streets of London this week choose death - at least for the Iraqis. If it's a choice between letting some carbonated-beverage crony of Dick Cheney get a piece of the Nasariyah soft-drinks market or allowing Saddam to go on feeding his subjects feet-first into the industrial shredder for another decade or three, then the "peace" activists will take the lesser of two evils - ie, crank up the shredder. Better yet, end UN sanctions so Saddam can replace the older, less reliable shredders, the ones with too many bits of bone tissue jammed in the cogs.
Without George W. Bush, these poor souls would have nothing to protest. If not for the liberation of Iraq, all the little peace protesters would be idly sitting in their coffee shops, waiting for the next WTO Summit. Now that the war has ended, they should be celebrating Bush rather than of protesting against recent history.
Not that the war has ended, yet - at least for these peace-minded souls. They continue to protest with their unwashed bodies, incoherent signs, enormous puppets and now with the symbolic power of paint:
So this week they'll be splashing red paint hither and yon to symbolise all the Iraqi blood spilled by Bush. In yesterday's Independent , Dr David Lowry noted that Medact, a respected NGO of British medical chappies, has decided that, since the start of the Iraq war in March, between 7,800 and 9,600 civilians have died. This is presumably the same Medact that a year ago predicted that in the Iraq war and the three months following 260,000 would die, with a further 200,000 succumbing to disease and famine, and another 20,000 getting killed in the ensuing civil war.
Given that they've now revised their figures downwards by 98 per cent, it would be nice to think the protesters might reduce their budget for gallons of Dulux Mesopotamian Burgundy Gloss by a commensurate amount. The rest of us should pelt Medact with rotten tomatoes symbolising all the blood that wasn't spilt.
The evidence continues to accumulate as to how misguided the anti-war crowd is. For 30 years, Saddam Hussein waged war on the Iraqi people but no one protested that. Yet they find it their duty to protest against the men and women who freed a nation from a murderous regime. They continue to protest the loss of life in Iraq during the 2 month liberation fight (8 months after the fact), yet are damned by their silence about the hundreds of thousands being
exhumed from mass
graves all over the country.
The war against the people of Iraq is over for the first time in 30 years. If the goal is to give peace a chance, it has been done. Accomplished by the men and women of the United States Armed Forces under the command of George W. Bush.
