April 11, 2003



How Many McVeighs

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak claimed last week that the U.S. war in Iraq would create "100 bin Ladens".

American soldiers are making claims of their own: "I say we just nuke this place and make it into a parking lot," and, "I didn't know who was there, and I didn't really care. The job was to go put the bombs on target and worry about that later," and, "We had a great day. We killed a lot of people," and, "The Iraqis are sick people, and we are the chemotherapy," and, "I'm Sorry. But the chick was in the way," and, "We dropped a few civilians. But what do you do?"

Couple this destroy-anything-in-your-path inculcation with slashing of veterans' benefits (and otherwise shitty treatment of returned vets) and a stagnating economy, and it sounds like the war will in the end create some more McVeighs as well.

posted by eddie


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