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We didn�t fight World War II because of the Holocaust, but �

October 19, 2004 ~ 5:12 p.m.

On Wednesday, October 13, the news broke that a mass grave of men, women and children had been unearthed in Hatra, which had a large Kurdish population. A baby had been shot in the head and foetuses were found among the gore in the mass grave.

News of these gruesome discoveries isn�t exactly new. We started finding them almost from the moment Saddam had been dispatched from power.

The brutal legacy of Saddam�s butchery that we keep finding, however, have no bearing on anti-war arguments. The anti-wars pretend that they were happy to see Iraqis celebrating around the fallen statues of Saddam. They say as convincingly as they can that the capture of Saddam brought them a sigh of relief. They say that these graves�entire killing fields�cause them grief.

But still, they always add, we shouldn�t have gone in. We should have continued sanctions. We should have awaited U.N. approval, and for the big man, Mr. Annan himself, to declare the legality of any war against Iraq. Most of all, France, Germany and Russia had great ideas on how to appease Iraq (especially if it didn�t endanger their precious food-for-oil programs). Even the lunatics screaming about government �oppression� don�t even care about this. The fact is that through the last few years, it�s proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the �caring and compassionate� Left is a bunch of BS. (Worse still, I�ve given it nearly a week before I decided to write about this subject, and I haven�t found one, even one, entry that discussed the Hatra killing field here on Blogcritics.)

The Left still pretends that they are concerned about human rights and dignity, but they are happy to follow in the footsteps of the isolationist Old Right. If Pat Buchanan and the rest of that lot had their way, we�d never have fought World War II. And isn�t it ironic that for all the marvellous talk of stopping the Holocaust, nobody would dare to interrupt a discussion about the Second World War and say, �But it wasn�t about stopping the Holocaust; it was because we were attacked by the Japanese.� We pat ourselves on the back for getting involved in the conflict, but it was Pearl Harbor, not the mass genocide unravelling in Europe, which provided the motive for us to enter the war. In retrospect, we can say, �We helped to end the Holocaust.� And what a truly good thing it was too.

And so, someone please inform me, how is the situation in Iraq any different? We know the horrors that went on under Saddam�s regime�the Iraqi holocaust�and we�ve known about it for quite a while. And yet, the anti-wars still shake their heads, mumble that this is not the reason why we invaded Iraq. No matter how many skeletons of babies you hold up that show bullet holes in their skulls, your average anti-war agitator will still say, �That�s very sad. But we were supposed to be looking for WMDs! Where are they? We were lied into war!� In other words, the killing fields of Iraq make no impact at all upon these people.

We hear all the time from the anti-war faction how bad we are to pretend that this was a humanitarian mission. Well, how bad is it that this crowd ignores the humanitarian aspect of the war?

We could use a little retrospect with regard to the War in Iraq, just as we�ve seen fit to do with World War II.


Keep your limey hands off our election!

The Guardianistas are at it again. After getting blasted by irate Americans for trying to influence the election in a heavily populated county of a crucial swing state, The Guardian is gleefully posting some of the more obscene responses (along with the occasional sympathetic one) to their experiment, in which their British readers were given the addresses of people living in Clark Country, Ohio so they could persuade their dumb American cousins to vote against Bush.

Now anyone who reads The Guardian (Britain�s answer to The New York Times) can see for themselves what horrible and uncouth people those Yanks really are. We swear and curse, we call them �limeys,� and we poke fun at their stereotypically rotten teeth. They were just trying to educate us and we lashed out at them! Poor them, bad us!

Now, imagine the furor caused and the torrent of insults lobbed at Americans if they gathered the addresses of people in Britain and encouraged them to vote for Tony Blair in 2005. Can you say, �You interfering Americans!� Lots of Brits would.

I take my hat off to the letter writer from California who warned, �I want to advise you that you and anyone that participates in subverting the US presidential election can be criminally charged and perhaps even charged as spies.� Perhaps we need a new Alien and Sedition Act!

Furthermore, read the content of the letter encouraged by The Guardian�all the sentiment about don�t be ashamed, the majority of you didn�t vote for Bush, and we hope you can return to �the other� America, the one we all love and respect.

Yep, the �other� America: the America that will let the rest of the world decide what is safest for it. Face it, The Guardian and its readership asked for the degradation they received.


The 2004 ALCS: One hell of a ride!

How about those Red Sox and Yankees � I mean, jeez!

It keeps getting more surreal. After three consecutive nights of the longest postseason baseball games ever played, the Red Sox are standing taller with a chance to at least tie, if not win, the American League Championship Series in New York.

Boston, which not only finished the regular season with 98 wins and finished only three games behind New York but swept the Anaheim Angels in the first round of the playoffs, lost the first two games of the second round in New York. In Game 3, they lost embarrassingly to the Yankees at home at Fenway, 19-8. That game lasted more than four hours and was the longest nine-inning playoff game ever played.

Then came not just one, but two dramatic marathon wins by the Red Sox. On Sunday night came a 12-inning, 5-hour 2-minute affair. Last night was a 14-inning, 5-hour, 49-minute nail-biter. Largely thanks to power hitter David Ortiz�the MVP of this team, in my mind�the Sox walked away from both gruelling contests with a win.

So now the series goes back to New York. And, though I want desperately for the Sox to overcome being down in this series and bury the Yankees, the possibility of the worst case scenario is over and cannot happen now: The Yankees celebrating at Fenway Park.

� M.E.M.

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