by Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.Com

01/17/05

Andrew Sullivan opines that the horrors of Abu Ghraib undermined the war: what he doesn't understand is that this is the war. Not the war he wished for -- an antiseptic fantasy in which the grateful Iraqis thronged the streets hailing us as their 'liberators' -- but the war we have and will continue to have so long as Sullivan and others in the War Party demand that we 'stay the course.' Abu Ghraib had to happen, given the nature of the conflict: a struggle pitting the Iraqis -- the overwhelming majority of whom want us out -- against their occupiers. It wasn't the implementation of the war plan, or the lack of a war plan -- it was the war itself that gave rise to Abu Ghraib and the scandal of widespread torture from Guantanamo to Afghanistan...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4435


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp