US Makes Full Attack on Falluja...

This is a political commentary, so for those of you who are enamored by Bush and his stuttering, please do not continue.


As many of you have noticed, the conflict in the Middle East was at a stand-still during the weeks prior to the 2004 elections. "Why?" you may ask. Well, although I am no political expert, the reasons only seem simple enough. The situation in Iraq has always been controversial, and while running for office again, Bush couldn't continue doing what he's been doing for the past four years - the wrong thing. However, soon after winning the elections, I found it rather coincidental - and although very precedented, still disturbing - that we were in position to continue our selective genocide of the Iraqi people. The New York Times reported on November 4th that our troops were in position all around Falluja, ready to go in and kill everyone who resisted the great unpartisan policeman of the world - the United States. This is our way of assisting the Iraqi people, by killing all those opposed to the American opinion of "freedom," "liberty," "democracy," and oil for the US. One of the generals on site was quoted saying that they would kill anyone who did not surrender. In short, this was not a mission of mercy or rescue. It was a mission of Bush telling the world that you're either with us, or on the list to be "no longer with us" - in other words "dead." When did we revert back to the Middle Ages where might was right? When, in the age of information and technology, littered with scientific discovery, life changing ideas, and never before seen wealth and luxury, did we agree to let the ignorant, stubborn, and inarticulate lead the most powerful nation in the world? The world is an elementary school playground, and the US is the bully with a thyroid problem and premature growth hormone release. The rest of the world will sit idly by, murmering in secret that our actions are unjust, but afraid to stand up should they be the next to have their lunch money taken. We are in an age of cowardice, where economic trade agreements and self preservation are more important than the lives of others and democracy in its true form. We are in an age of hypocracy, where only the strong should have weapons, food, and a choice in how they live. We are in an age of ignorance, an age of human baseness... we are in an age, of Bush.