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December 30, 2003

Blood on Our Hands

In the months and years prior to the liberation of Iraq, a common chorus was heard from many on the extreme left. The song was something along the lines of "sanctions are killing the Iraqi people!" Somewhere in the muddled minds that hummed along with this tune, Saddam was apparently just a misunderstood man who loved his people and wanted to provide for them, if only the nasty, bad men in the West would let him. Most of us toward the center and on the right thought they were idiots.

Of course, we were right.

Allawi said Saddam admitted he invested stolen Iraqi money -- which the Iraq Governing Council estimates at US$40 billion -- in Switzerland, Japan and Germany, among others, under fictitious company names.

There's blood on someone's hands, but not ours.

And this is interesting:

U.S. forces operating in the so-called Sunni Triangle -- the region of Iraq most loyal to captured former dictator Saddam Hussein -- found a significant weapons cache that included al Qaeda literature and videotapes, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

Iraq. Al Qaeda. No connection.