Yahoo! News - GOP Delegates Boo Moore at Convention
The "disingenuous film maker" featured in the article, Michael Moore, never "portrayed Iraq as an oasis of peace," as McCain claims. Moore features American soldiers and their stories, questionable Bush family dealings, and Iraqi casualties (many who are women and children). The brutal grip of Saddam was less chaotic than the current occupation of Iraq. You cannot argue that bombs bursting on every street corner is less chaotic. Citizens are without utilities, a livelihood, and--too many--without loved ones lost as "collateral damage" by the hands of well meaning American GIs. Saddam was no doubt a crazy dictator, but his iron fist rule was keeping feuding tribes together. He killed many Iraqis, mainly those who were unfortunate to be from a tribe other than his own, in order to keep a sovereignty that was not just not meant to be. "Iraq" has never really flourished as a nation, and the British had the sense to leave after they tried to occupy it way back in 1920. Just because Mr. Moore is against the President, does not mean he is against the American people. Unless you watch his movie or have an official transcript, you cannot argue about it... and not be a liar yourself.
I wonder if as long as we keep the official Iraqi death toll under Saddam's previously held death toll record, will we stay the good guys? Or do we not care about their deaths, because they are not our tribesman?
