Now that the war in Iraq is won - it was in pretty good shape when President Bush left office - and a new era dawns over Baghdad, it is worth reviewing the claims by liberals that this was an unnecessary war.
Suppose there had been no war in Iraq.
Saddam Hussein would still be in charge. Abu Ghraib would still exist. Instead of placing hoods on inmates and making them stand on chairs and otherwise humiliating them, as a few disgraced troops did, inmates would be tortured, bodies mutilated and people executed by Hussein's henchmen.
Headless torsos would still be thrown on lawns in the dead of night, the Hussein equivalent of burning a cross.
And families would still be billed for the bullets that killed their loved ones
Hussein's insane sons, Oday and Qusay, would still be alive. Women would still be raped on their wedding days. Olympic teams would still be physically punished for losing a game.
Maybe Hussein would have invaded another country or two. He tried Iran and then Kuwait. Would Saudi Arabia have been next on his list?
Crooks would still be trading oil for bribes under the Oil for Food program operated by the United Nations. Billions would still be going into the wrong hands. And those German contractors would still be building bunkers for Hussein.
When it comes to bunkers, no one builds them better than the Germans.
And of course, Israel would continue to be terrorized by suicide-bombers financed by Saddam Hussein.
Read the rest here. Without an Iraq war President Bush might have left office with much higher approval numbers, but the world would have been a much more dangerous place.
And that record of no attacks on the homeland since 9/11 might have been broken.
Surber has another great piece out today comparing coverage of the inauguration to coverage of football playoff games. As you can guess, sports announcers are far more objective than political broadcasters. They're smart enough not to tick off half their audience.
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