June 16, 2005
Then as Farce
Guess the source:
"[We] have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. [We] have been tricked into it by a steady withholding of information. The Baghdad communiqués are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been far worse than we have been told, our administration more bloody and inefficient than the public knows... Our unfortunate troops,... under hard conditions of climate and supply, are policing an immense area, paying dearly every day in lives for the willfully wrong policy of the civil administration in Baghdad."
Posted by ben at June 16, 2005 03:04 PM
Comments
There is so much wrong with what you just said that it would take to long too address it all. Therefore, I will only refute one point you made, and it's one that too many people make without thinking. "We aren't being told the whole story." A wise person once said, "A person is smart, people are stupid." If you were to tell one person that, hypothetically speaking, there were aliens in Roswell, NM, that person would probably freak out. Slowly, however, they would come to terms with it and accept it. If you told ALL of America that there were aliens in Roswell, NM, it would result in a nation wide hysteria and utter chaos. This situation can be applied to government dealings. Basically, you don't need to know everything! I'm not saying ignorance is bliss, only that it's not the masses' right to be told all that the government knows. If you can show me where the constitution says that, then by all means go ahead, and I will sincerely appologize. Until then, my statment stands.
Posted by: Anonomys at June 16, 2005 06:51 PM
You are K, and I claim my five pounds.
Posted by: Ben at June 16, 2005 08:26 PM