With recent (and not so recent) news regarding weapons of mass destruction and America's ever changing justification(s) for war, I felt the need for a little history. What follows is a list of entries on bitterpill.org related to war. In the end, these posts are my logical and emotional reactions to war, but it creates a bit of a timeline, for me anyway, of America's war in Iraq. I'm sorry, I meant the international coalition's war in Iraq (I forgot Poland).
John Brady Kiesling's letter of resignation - March 01, 2003
We spread disproportionate terror and confusion in the public mind, arbitrarily linking the unrelated problems of terrorism and Iraq. The result, and perhaps the motive, is to justify a vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to the military and to weaken the safeguards that protect American citizens from the heavy hand of government...
media-opoly - April 06, 2003
As I have watched our country move its people, forces and will towards war, I have been struck by the might of the modern political PR machines that help define public opinion and public consensus.
War, what is it good for - April 22, 2003
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
the certain agony of the battlefield - Aug 28, 2003
The War on Terror was never a war in the traditional sense. It is, instead, a kind of brand, an idea that can be easily franchised by any government in the market for an all-purpose opposition cleanser.
stand up and be counted - Nov 5, 2003
Even supporters said the continuing toll of casualties made it hard for them to explain their vote to skeptical constituents back home.
can't make them undead - Nov 17, 2003
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. . . You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.
Jimmy Carter - Nobel Prize - Dec 10, 2003
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents.
the good news about war and warriors - Jan 03, 2004
We are the strongest nation in the world today. I do not believe that we should ever apply that economic, political, and military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn't have been there. None of our allies supported us. Not Japan, not Germany, not Britain or France. If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning.
as liberators - January 19, 2004
...our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators...
reexamine our reasoning - May 15, 2004
These men are liars and cheats and they gamble with your freedom and your life and the lives of your sons and daughters and the reputation of your country.
ties, ties, ties with Al Qaeda - July 07, 2004
The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Saddam's ass, Monkeys - July 12, 2004
We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder.
a system of ideas of right and wrong conduct - Aug 04, 2004
How does a government add up the numbers and deem a certain number of innocent deaths acceptable or even redeemable.
