There is no limit to our generosity. We sacrificed our human and financial resources to liberate the citizens of Falujah from one of their few remaining hospitals this time.
Being the doubting Thomasina, I couldn’t visualize the surviving citizens of Falujah rushing forward with flowers and love for our military, but I’m told it was a necessary and moral attack. The survivors will appreciate it in the long run. After all, how could we possibly guarantee safe, honest elections in Iraq if we didn’t kill everyone who might vote the wrong way or, heaven forbid, try to stop the right people from getting to the polls?
This attack ought to improve our reputation in a world that lived in fear of the danger that hospital represented. Mothers in red states and blue states alike will put their children to bed tonight without so much as a thought of some escaped patient sneaking in to drop blood on the clean carpets, or an explosion from an outdated oxygen canister in Falujah shaking the world. Mothers in Falujah won’t have to worry about a midnight trip to the emergency room because they’ll be clutching their children to their sides. We have everything under control.
As a bonus, our morally mandated cult members have bragging fodder for the next election cycle. We saved the women from burquas and the world from Falujah’s evil hospital, and only days after Doctors Without Borders Pulled out in fear.
Don’t get me wrong. My panties are not in a wad. My heart may be, though.
I leave you with the one thing I know for sure, and two haunting questions (I’m sure I’ll have more when the shock and awe wears off). For sure, absolutely, positively, without a shred of doubt, I will never understand or approve this administration’s version of morality.
Now for the questions. Do flowers grow in Falujah? Will they ever grow there again?
11/05 update: Despite a documentary showing images of bodies burned to the bone in after a November 2004 offensive by U.S. troops on the town of Falluja, and an American soldier who admits white phosophrus was used, the U.S. spokesperson doesn't "recall" the use of white phosphorus on Iraqi civilians. It does confirm, however, the use of MK 77, but says it was "different than that of napalm"
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2005-11-08T204236Z_01_MCC874503_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-WEAPONS.xml
So, I guess it's safe to guess flowers are not growing in Falujah. I doubt the kids are doing too well either.
