Democracy in Iraq: “Nobody was beheaded”

Mother Davis puts on her pointy headed liberal thinking cap as she considers,

Lately, America has been asking itself, “What are we fighting for in Iraq, anyway?”

President Bush, who at first said that American soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq because of that country’s weapons of mass destruction, changed his mind when it was discovered that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Bush’s latest excuse for the war in Iraq is that we are fighting for freedom and democracy there.

So, what does Bush’s version of Iraqi freedom and democracy look like? It can be summed up in one short phrase: “Nobody was beheaded.”

That’s what Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr had to say about the treatment of people held captive in a secret Iraqi government prison. Bayan Jabr wanted to know what the big fuss was. Yes, the 170 prisoners were all herded into a space designed only to hold about a dozen or so people. Yes, they were beaten. Yes, some of them had their skin peeled off. Yes, a couple of them were in such bad shape that they were paralyzed.

But so what? “You can be proud,” Bayan Jabr announced to the people of Iraq. “Nobody was beheaded.”

There you have it, America. That’s what your soldiers are fighting and dying for. That’s the meaning of freedom and democracy in Iraq.

Looking for her moral compass in a pile of dead detainees,
Mother Davis