RetroBlog: My Pre-War Thoughts on Iraq

I found my first blog from when I was a freshman in college, and found this particular entry intriguing. It was three days before Iraq submitted the UN documentation confirming that they had disposed of their weapons and materials. George W. Bush claimed this "was not convincing," and 3 months later Bush declared war without Congress. 2 months after that he claimed victory in Iraq (May 1, 2003). Most importantly, it's 6 years, 6 months, and 28 days from the present day, in which we are still mired in war with Iraq. I'm proud to say my stance has remained concrete since the beginning, that Iraq was a clever bait-and-switch using the War on Terrorism that he was only able to do with the support of the American people, which he gained through tactics of inciting a dangerous level of Patriotism and ethnocentricism.

December 4, 2002

If what I see in movies and television is a true mirror of real life, then warheads aren't that big. Villains always seem to carry them around and hold them with ease. i have a feeling that if Iraq had these neat little contraptions, they'd put them under a mattress somewhere, or put a lampshade over them and pretend they're deco.

Not truly relevant to today's topic, which is the all-so-interesting raid on one of Sadam Hussein's palaces. Of course, Annan's Lackeys (UN troops) found nothing. Now that they found nothing, though, they were very quick to focus the issue on Iraqi cooperation. They played it off like it was some trial, just to see if they would let them in. Sure, Kofi...sure. Well, now that we know Iraq is cool with letting us in, why don't we focus back on the War on Terrorism? That's what we're good at...getting all riled up on one issue and then switching to another. Like Al Gore said to Larry King, "You solve problems by looking at them, devising a plan, and then enacting it until your mission is finished."

All Bush is doing efficiently, in my opinion, is rallying up PowerPatriotism. This is my term for the egocentric supreme race view that America has circulated since we've "been to the mountaintop and looked over." We may be the most powerful, but where are the terrorists? We gave up on them. Where are the weapons? We'll soon see...or give up. I am not against America. I am just against the War Thirsty Tactics that have been taking place. We can have all the intelligence, technology, and resources that we want. It still may not keep us out of the worst thing that can happen to a country...nuclear war and destruction.