Monday, November 03, 2003

A comparison

Iraq is about the same size as California, with about ten million fewer inhabitants--23 million. The contention that much of Iraq is "back to normal," in that context, seems odd. Consider if during any given day, there were thirty-five armed attacks on police in our state, and the area around Los Angeles experienced a cop killing and three or four bombings per day; and imagine how the Bush administration, after six months of such a situation, would regard California. We'd be immersed in National Guardsmen, and the first time one of them was killed, we'd be an armed camp, a state in a state of siege.
Could it be that what Bush (and Wolfie and Rummie and that whore Condie, not to mention the house-slave Colin Powell) regard what is intolerable for us white folks as "normal" for arabs?
Does this begin to feel a bit like the British Empire, except that our wogs are arabs?

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