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Beyond Belief

It's more than a year after the Iraq War started and all I can say is that I'm astonished at the events and controversies it has caused.

Who could have believed that so many people have spent so much time discrediting the war? From news editors, to members of governments, to average smucks on the street. A quagmire? A military disaster?

Looking back you'ld think that the U.S. had invaded Sweden. I can understand why an invasion of Sweden would be something to get worked up about. But Iraq? Saddam Huessein?

Can you believe the people who held up protest signs opposing the war in Iraq? And their friends who had signs comparing Bush to Hitler? It's quite beyond belief. Did they actually believe the Bush = Hitler comparisons?

The split between the members of the NATO alliance. Could anyone have predicted its near demise over Iraq? It's quite mind boggling given what NATO has been through over the last 5 decades.

Democrats such as Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, etc... referring to the war as a 'great deception' or 'a plot hatched in Texas'. Al Gore has been transformed from a somewhat odd robotic-like character into a complete mental case. Howard Dean went from being a typical governor of a typical state into a complete nut ball. All over Iraq?

Who did these people think they were saving? The Iraqi's? Did the people opposed to the war actually want the Iraqi people to live under Saddam's rule forever? What did they offer as an alternative?

Maybe I'm totally out of the loop on these things. I don't know. Perhaps I get too much of my news from blogs and other online sources. Perhaps my news hasn't been filtered enough.

I just wish I could understand it all. Did these people really want Iraqi's to live under Saddam? Did they just not know any better? Did their hatred for America or G.W. cause them to overlook Saddam's crimes? Or was it all just some unconscience game to them? Their way of rebelling perhaps?

I don't understand... and I don't think I ever will.

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