{"id":1479,"date":"2003-04-10T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-11T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2003-04-10T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-11T01:24:00","slug":"who-threatened-the-pampered-sheiks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/04\/10\/21\/24\/who-threatened-the-pampered-sheiks\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Threatened The Pampered Sheiks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The war was a cakewalk after all: the path paved by the bodies of Iraqi civilians and conscripts, who died defenseless against a storm of remote control bombs … The three week invasion offered barely a battle to speak of: a few small arms firefights, a couple of wobbly Scuds launched harmlessly into the Kuwaiti desert, an ambush or two … The Americans killed nearly as many American and British soldiers as the Iraqis did. This begs the question: if it was so easy, why was it necessary? How big of a threat was the Beast of Baghdad, after all? Did his rusting army, even the supposedly fearsome Republican Guard, really pose any kind of the threat to the US? Or even the pampered sheiks of Kuwait? Why was it necessary? Who benefits? What will happen once the military moves on? … These are questions that will never get serious answer over here. Indeed, the questions may even never be asked, in the scripted kabuki shows that are passed off as Bush press conferences … Why did Rumsfeld make the assassination- by-bunker- buster-bomb of Saddam and his family such an unyielding obsession? The bungled hits cost tens of millions each, put US pilots at risk and slaughtered dozens of nameless innocents. It seems obvious that the Bush gang desperately wants to avoid a war crimes trial, where the legitimacy of their invasion might be put to a fatal legal test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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