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.:: How I explain it to my child?::. |
| Son: You know, Dad, why we had to attack Iraq? |
| Father: Because they had weapons of mass destruction. |
| Son: But the inspectors have not found weapons of mass destruction. |
| Father: Because the Iraqis have hidden them. |
| Son: And that's why we invaded Iraq? |
| Father: Yes. Conquests always work better than inspections. |
| Son: But after we had captured him, we still have not found weapons of mass destruction, right? |
| Father: Because the weapons are so well hidden. Do not worry, we will find something, probably just before the elections in 2004. |
| Son: Why would the whole of Iraq weapons of mass destruction have? |
| Father: In order to use in the war, Dummie. |
| Son: I'm confused. If they had all these weapons, which they wanted to use in war, why have they not used the weapons, when we started War had them? |
| Father: Well, obviously they wanted to not that anyone knows that they have these weapons and so they decided, rather than thousands to die to defend himself. |
| Son: That makes no sense. Why should they decide to die if they all had these big weapons with which they could defend themselves? |
| Father: It's a different culture. It must make no sense. |
| Son: I do not know how you feel, but I do not think they have any of the weapons had, of which our government said that they had. |
| Father: Well, you know, it is not important whether they had the weapons. We had another good reason to attack them. |
| Son: And what was that? |
| Father: Even if Iraq no weapons of mass destruction was Saddam Hussein an evil dictator, which is also a good reason is another country to attack. |
| Son: Why? What does an evil dictator, that it is right to attack his country? |
| Father: Well, among other things, he tortured his own people. |
| Son: Just as they do in China? |
| Father: comparison with China is not Iraq. China is a good economic competitor, where millions of people to slave wages in sweatshops working for U.S. companies to make rich. |
| Son: So, if a country's people to exploit profits from U.S. firms, it is a good country, even if it tortures his own people? |
| Father: Right. |
| Son: Why were people tortured in Iraq? |
| Father: Mainly for political crimes, such as criticizing the government. People who are in Iraq criticized the government have been put in jail and tortured. |
| Son: Is not that exactly what happens in China? |
| Father: I've told you, China is something else. |
| Son: What is the difference between China and Iraq? |
| Father: Well, among other things, the Iraq of the Baath Party dominates, while China is Communist. |
| Son: Did you not me once said that communists are evil? |
| Father: No, just Cuban Communists are bad. |
| Son: How are the Cuban Communists bad? |
| Father: Well, among other things, are people who criticize Cuban government, put in jail and tortured. |
| Son: Like in Iraq? |
| Father: Exactly. |
| Son: And like in China? |
| Father: As I have said: China is a good economic competitor, Cuba, the other is not. |
| Son: Why is it that Cuba is not a good economic competitor is? |
| Father: Well, you know, back in the 60s our government has adopted some laws which make it illegal for Americans accounted for, with Cuba to trade or do business until they are no longer communists and capitalists as we are. |
| Son: But if we would get rid of these laws, trade with Cuba and would drive business with them, would not help the Cubans, to become capitalists? |
| Father: Be not an always know-better... |
| Son: I do not think that I am one. |
| Father: Well, regardless, they have no religious freedom in Cuba. |
| Son: Just as in China, with the Falun Gong movement? |
| Father: I've already told you: stop using bad to talk about China. In any case, Saddam Hussein by a military coup came to power, he is anyway not a legitimate leader. |
| Son: What is a military coup? |
| Father: That's when a military general, the government of a country with violence over violence, rather than elections, as we do in the U.S.. |
| Son: Is not the leader of Pakistan by a military coup came to power? |
| Father: You mean General Pervez Musharraf? Uh, yes, he is but Pakistan is our friend. |
| Son, why is Pakistan our friend if their leader is not lawful? |
| Father: I never said that Pervez Musharraf is not lawful. |
| Son: Did you not say that a military general who comes to power by the legitimate government of a country by force overturns, an officer is legitimate? |
| Father: Only Saddam Hussein. Pervez Musharraf is our friend because he has helped Afghanistan to attack. |
| Son: Why did we attack Afghanistan? |
| Father: Because of what they did to us on 11 September. |
| Son: What Afghanistan has us on 11 September pleased? |
| Father: Well, on 11 September, 19 Male - fifteen of them from Saudi Arabia - abducted four of our planes in our buildings in New York and Washington, and flew 4,000 people killed. |
| Son: And what Afghanistan has done this? |
| Father: In Afghanistan, these evil people trained under the oppressive power of the Taliban. |
| Son: Are not the Taliban those bad radical Islamists, human hands and heads chopped off for? |
| Father: Yes, exactly. Not only that they are human hands and heads chopped off, they have also oppressed women. |
| Son: Did the Bush administration to the Taliban in May 2001, not 43 million U.S. dollars? |
| Father: Yes, but that was a reward because they are so successful against the drugs were made. |
| Son: Against the drug approach? |
| Father: Yes, the Taliban were very helpful, the opium production to stop. |
| Son: How have they achieved so well? |
| Father: Very easy. When people are caught, fitted opium, the Taliban have their hands and their heads chopped off. |
| Son: If people it Taliban's hands and his head chopped off, because they have grown plants was also in order, but not if they are the people for other reasons, his hands and his head chopped off for? |
| Father: Exactly. It is okay for us if radical Islamic fundamentalists abhacken people's hands because they have grown plants, but it is evil when they the people's hands abhacken because they have stolen bread. |
| Son: they are hacking the people in Saudi Arabia, not the hands and heads? |
| Father: That's something else. Afghanistan was by a tyrannical patriarchy reigns, the oppressed women and forced them, in the public to wear burqas, with stoning as a punishment for women, if they are not obeyed. |
| Son: Should Saudi women in the public do not even wear burqas? |
| Father: No, Saudi women wear a traditional Islamic body covering. |
| Son: What is the difference? |
| Father: The traditional Islamic body covering, as proposed by Saudi women is taken, is a chaste and yet elegant clothing, the whole female body except the eyes and fingers covered. The burqa, on the other hand, is an evil tool of patriarchal oppression, the whole female body except the eyes and fingers covered. |
| Son: That sounds like the same thing with different names. |
| Father: Well, you can Saudi Arabia do not compare with Afghanistan. The Saudis are our friends. |
| Son: But, I thought 15 of the 19 hijackers, 11 September came from Saudi Arabia. |
| Father: Yes, but they have trained in Afghanistan. |
| Son: Who trained them? |
| Father: A very bad man with the name Osama bin Laden. |
| Son: Was he from Afghanistan? |
| Father: Uh, no, he also comes from Saudi Arabia. But he is an evil, very evil man |
| Son: I think I remember that time he was our friend. |
| Father: Just as we are him and his Mujahideen in the'80s have helped the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan back. |
| Son: Who were the Soviets? Was it the evil communist empire, of which Ronald Reagan talked about? |
| Father: There are no more Soviets. The Soviet Union has been dissolved in 1990 or so and now they have elections and capitalism like us. We call them Russians now. |
| Son: the Soviets - I mean the Russians - are now so our friends? |
| Father: Well, not really. Do you know they were our friends for many years after they had ceased, to Soviets, but then decided to make our attack on Iraq not to support and now we are angry at them. We are also angry at the French and the Germans, because they also have not helped. |
| Son: The French and the Germans are also evil? |
| Father: Not really bad, but bad enough that we call "French fries" and "French toast" to "Freedom Fries" and "Freedom toast" were renamed. |
| Son: we always rename foods around, if a country does not do what we want from him? |
| Father: No, we do only with our friends. Our enemies, we draw on. |
| Son: But Iraq was not in the 80's our friend? |
| Father: Well, yes, for a time. |
| Son: Was Saddam Hussein was already leader of Iraq? |
| Father: Yes, but at the time he fought against Iran, which made him temporarily to our friend did. |
| Son: Why is it that our friend made? |
| Father: Because at that time Iran was our enemy. |
| Son: Did he at that time not gassed the Kurds? |
| Father: Yes, but since he at the time fought against Iran, we have away to him to show that we are his friend. |
| Son: So anyone who fights against our enemies, our friend automatically? |
| Father: Mostly, yes. |
| Son: And anyone who fights against our friends, our enemy will automatically? |
| Father: Sometimes agrees that too. If American companies but it can earn, both sides with weapons to supply the better. |
| Son: Why? |
| Father: Because war is good for the economy, which means that war is good for America. And since God on the side of America, is any war opponents un-American Communist. You understand now why we attacked Iraq have? |
| Son: I think we have attacked them because God wanted that we do, right? |
| Father: Yes. |
| Son: But how do we know that God wants that we attack Iraq? |
| Father: Well, you know, God speaks directly to George W. Bush and tell him what he should do. |
| Son: In the end you say, then, that we have attacked Iraq because George W. Bush hears voices? |
| Father: Yes! Finally, you have understood how the world works. Now, make your eyes, do it yourself and sleep comfortably. Good night. |
| Son: Good night, Dad. |