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:: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 ::
Just wait: Now Comes the Hard Part.
Peaceniks, Appeasement Firsters and Blame Americaites have spun a new meaning for the overworked glib one-liner “now the hard part” – Halloweentalk for optimistically stigmatizing a plan as all but impossible lunacy.
For weeks, they forecast in hysterical spinspeak that the U.S. liberation of Iraq would in various order result in thousands of bodybags returning to America, killing tens of thousands of civilians including mostly women and children (presumably those not already starved to death by U.S.-favored sanctions), a Viet-Nam quagmire, an explosion of the Arab Street, a massive Scud attack on Israel and an Israeli nuclear response, igniting thousands of oil wells and a consequent apocalyptic environmental nightmare, massive attacks with (presumably newly-found chemical and biological WMDs), weeks of Mogadishu house-to-house combat for which U.S. troops are ill-trained, a stalled invasion, a failed battle plan, and worldwide terrorist attacks by a hundred newly-created Osama bin Ladens.
The script could have been written by Iraqi Chief Flack Baghdad Bob or NBC’s Peter “Aid and Comfort” Arnett. Obviously, any chance of success was ridiculously miniscule.
But, since none of the foregoing actually occurred, the successful U.S. policy to date is being renamed the easy part. The forecasters of instant doom say don’t despair for now comes the hard part. Surely, they say (broad smile), U.S.-led coalition plans to rebuild a free and democratic Iraq can’t possibly succeed.
:: James Baar 4/22/2003 01:55:00 PM [+] ::
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