Yesterday (otherwise known as today in the rest of the world who haven’t caught up yet) was the 5th Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq. So I’ve been thinking about what my contribution was gonna be to the blogswarm.
I thought I could discuss how ironic it is that many on the right - and I’m talking outside of the US here, I have long since given up trying to figure out the thought logic of the US right - are now calling the war a disaster. I mean, what did they think was going to happen? Maybe the US Army would skip in and take out Saddam and give all the kids soft toys and look like heroes?
I thought about discussing the original debate about how it was all about access to resources and now it appears the war is costing more than it’s making. Which is of course the reason why the right is now starting to think it’s all a waste of time.
I thought about discussing how disgusting it is that there isn’t even a record of how many Iraqi people have died during their alleged liberation. It’s a bit hard to call it a liberation when the liberators have taken out more people than the original dictator.
Well I reckon there’s a lot of people talking about that stuff so instead, here’s my contribution
Oh and while we’re on the topic of liberating people
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My concern was how the 5 year Anniversary was completely absent from the front pages of the newspapers. Surely this is a big story.
It’s an obvious indicator as to how normalised the media has become to war isn’t it? Oh what? 5 years in Iraq? So what?
I wonder if it’s just Australia?