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November 12, 2003

Surprised? Not Really.

Just when you think Ted Rall can't get any more stupid, he proves you wrong once again. Today's episode of "Ted Rall Makes Michael Moore Look Smart" has our pal drafting an imaginary letter from the (nominally) Iraqi resistance to a new member:

It is no easy thing to shoot or blow up young men and women because they wear American uniforms. Indeed, the soldiers are themselves oppressed members of America's vast underclass. Many don't want to be here; joining America's mercenary army is the only way they can afford to attend university. Others, because they are poor and uneducated, do not understand that they are being used as pawns in Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s cynical oil war.

Unfortunately, we can't help these innocent U.S. soldiers. They are victims, like ourselves, of the bandits in Washington. Nor can we disabuse them of the propaganda that an occupier isn't always an oppressor. We regret their deaths, but we must continue to kill them until the last one has gone home to America.

It makes one wonder then just how much pain these terrorists felt when they attacked the Red Cross compound, doesn't it? I mean, after all, those Red Cross employees were there, giving aid to the wounded and those in need, and all because of a horrible lie. Since the terrorists couldn't disabuse them of the notion that giving medical aid where it is needed is a good thing, they had to die.

And, oh ho ho, the United Nations employees, the way they oppressed the people of Iraq and rolled in tanks and guns and things that go boom. Yes, surely, even though they wanted to avoid this war, right or wrong, they must die as well.

Ted Rall's Brain: Where logic goes to die.