Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 15:40.
Look, I aired the criticisms of MoveOn to get the debate out in the open. So thanks for weighing in. But in the interests of debate, let me present the other side...
When Code Pink (not MoveOn) accused him of being a war criminal, they were presumably referring to his war crimes (bombing and strafing civilian areas, sweeps of the populace, arming ethnic cleansers like the late Sheikh al-Rishawi, etc.), not his lying.
Lying to the American people may not fit the technical definition of treason, but yes it does fit the classic definition of betrayal! When Westmoreland cooked the books by inflating Viet Cong casualties (as is now pretty universally acknowledged), that did not constitute betrayal? Petraeus' similar deflation of sectarian violence casualties does not constitute betrayal? Didn't someone sing back at the height of the Vietnam nightmare something about not getting fooled again?
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Look, I aired the criticisms of MoveOn to get the debate out in the open. So thanks for weighing in. But in the interests of debate, let me present the other side...
When Code Pink (not MoveOn) accused him of being a war criminal, they were presumably referring to his war crimes (bombing and strafing civilian areas, sweeps of the populace, arming ethnic cleansers like the late Sheikh al-Rishawi, etc.), not his lying.
Lying to the American people may not fit the technical definition of treason, but yes it does fit the classic definition of betrayal! When Westmoreland cooked the books by inflating Viet Cong casualties (as is now pretty universally acknowledged), that did not constitute betrayal? Petraeus' similar deflation of sectarian violence casualties does not constitute betrayal? Didn't someone sing back at the height of the Vietnam nightmare something about not getting fooled again?
Some annotation will follow...