Without Google, try and figure out who said the following…
The administration has said that Iraq has no right to stockpile chemical or biological weapons (“weapons of mass destruction”) – mainly because they have used them in the past. Well, if that’s the standard by which these matters are decided, then the U.S. is the nation that set the precedent. The U.S. has stockpiled these same weapons (and more) for over 40 years. The U.S. claims that this was done for deterrent purposes during it’s “Cold War” with the Soviet Union. Why, then, is it invalid for Iraq to claim the same reason (deterrence) – with respect to Iraq’s (real) war with, and the continued threat or, it’s neighbor Iran?
The administration claims that Iraq has used these weapons in the past. We’ve all seen the pictures that show a Kurdish woman and child frozen in death from the use of chemical weapons. But, have you seen these photo’s juxtaposed next to pictures from Hiroshima or Nagasaki? I suggest that one study the histories of World War I, World War II and other “regional conflicts” that the U.S. has been involved in to familiarize themselves with the use of “weapons of mass destruction.” Remember Dresden? How about Hanoi? Tripoli? Baghdad? What about the big ones – Hiroshima and Nagasaki? (At those two locations, the U.S. killed at least 150,000 non-combatants – mostly women and children – in the blink of an eye. Thousands more took hours, days, weeks or months to die.)
If Saddam is such a demon, and people are calling for war crimes charges against him and his nation, why do we not hear the same cry for blood directed at those responsible for even greater amounts of “mass destruction” – like those responsible and involved in dropping bombs on the cities mentioned above? The truth is, the U.S. has set the standard when it comes to the stockpiling and use of weapons of mass destruction. Hypocrisy when it comes to the death of children?
Give up?
Timothy McVeigh.
Keep this one in mind as the kook left will try to paint Doug Hoffman as the next Timothy McVeigh because remember the narrative: McVeigh is a radical right wing domestic terrorist. Only one problem… Everyone that knew him said he explicitly denied racism and denounced racists. Secondly, read that rant. Read it closer. If you had to pick who it sounded most like would you pick Doug Hoffman? Or would you pick a rightwinger like Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, or some of the far right wing kooks like the ones at Daily Kos, Moveon.org, or ACORN.
Think about that.
McVeigh was a scumbag, but it’s hard for me to accept that he was some rightwing nutbar. Just read his words.