"Fighting Them Over There...": What I Hear. [View All]

[Solly Mack]

Whenever anyone says "fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" I hear -

Bush and America invaded a country that was absolutely no threat, that absolutely had nothing to do with "911" - in short, America invaded a country for lies and trumped up "evidence" (more lies) just to create a battle stage for any group that may have a problem with America to come on in and duke it out..

That Bush used Iraq and the Iraqi people to encourage any groups willing to come within the borders of Iraq and fight it out.


That Bush was just so willing to destroy Iraq - murder, detain, and torture it's people for a talking point. As well as kill and maim American troops for the very same talking point.



I don't hear what they want me to hear - that this somehow keeps America and Americans safer.

I hear - I want to pick a fight and I pick Iraq as the the staging area - and I don't care who dies, who gets maimed, who gets illegally detained or tortured...as long as I have my talking point. Because I need that talking point to hide behind.

With everything else Bush wanted from invading Iraq, none of it excusable and almost all of it criminal, he callously and without any regard for life, chose Iraq to stage his campaign of domination - not just domination over Iraq (and Iraq's resources)...but to aid and abet his concentration of power to the executive, his marginalization of Congress, his erosion of civil liberties, and his control of America through fear.

Iraq and the Iraqi people were just handy to him.

Much like you and your neighbor deciding to use a third neighbors home to have a gunfight.

That's what I hear anyway.

"We're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here"

So basically, what you're saying is:

That my country deliberately and without cause, invaded Iraq - and then without their consent, started a gunfight with somebody else, that had nothing to do with Iraq.


That's pretty cowardly.