(Sad-)damn It

Next time someone asks me why I oppose the war in Iraq, I will send them this article. I’m a low-key fan of Morford, and this article just makes me dig him more.

Here’s a sample:

There is no reason to send in nearly a quarter-million U.S. troops to slaughter a half-million Iraqi people and create another estimated one million refugees. This is the U.N. estimate. Saddam’s a brutal thug? Is this the reason? Well, join the club. And he’s a pipsqueak compared to, say, North Korea’s Kim Jong-il. Or how about the two million or so massacred in Rwanda a few years ago? Should we discuss them and the United States not giving much of a damn? No? I see.

Saddam intentionally gassed his own people? Yes, apparently he did. No question, he’s a vile and barbarous dictator — exactly as he was when he was our ally.

Grrr. And the next time someone babbles at me about the “liberal media,” I’ll remind them just how many newspapers have bought in to the White House press machine’s scare tactics.