Well, as many of the 30% of Americans who didn’t quite agree with Mr. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq expected, we won the war but are quickly losing the peace<\/b>. Check out any of the major media web sites and you’ll see various articles about the anarchy now prevailing in much of Iraq, one month after our victory. Admittedly, Saddam Hussein was a major bad guy. However, a lot of Iraqis are reportedly wondering if they were better off<\/b> when he was in power — at least there was a system, bad as it was. Now there ain’t any system, ain’t any police, ain’t any electric power, ain’t any jobs to go to over there, and the Bush administration seems to be tiring already of the thankless and expensive task of restoring order and rebuilding Iraq. (And as to restoring democracy, well — any attempt to hold elections before the economy is resuscitated would just be a joke).<\/p>\n
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld<\/b> had this to say about the situation in Iraq: “Freedom is untidy. Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things.” I work in a county prosecutor’s office, and I can’t help but wonder if the criminal defense lawyers are tempted to use that line the next time they defend a gang member up on homicide charges for killing a grocery store owner. I mean, one of the most powerful men in our government just said that we are free to commit crimes and do bad things, didn’t he? So, if we’re gonna go light on Iraqi revenge killers, why not go light on American gang members too?<\/p>\n
Or instead, why not celebrate the fact that unlike the Iraqis, we do have order, infrastructure, a functioning economy, and a working democracy? And what better way to celebrate law and democracy than to vote out the jokers<\/b> who would say such things, in the Presidential election next fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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