The only thing Bush changes more than his excuse for invading Iraq is what he compares this unnecessary war to in order to make it seem noble. Bush and his supporters have compared the conflict to World War II, World War I, the Revolutionary War and just about anything else you can think of except Vietnam. Now they're comparing the writing of the constitution of Iraq to America's own Constitutional process. As Bill Maher said on his Friday show, give me a break: for one thing, Alexander Hamilton's people weren't responsible for the genocidal killing of tens of thousands of Benjamin Franklin's people. For another, the writing of the Constitution wasn't interrupted by violence like this in Iraq:
In violence today, armed insurgents locked a family of seven in a single room in Khadra, western Baghdad, placed explosives throughout the house, and then exploded them. Two women and five men were killed in the blasts, an Interior Ministry official said.Oh and in a very related event, 36 more bodies of men were found naked and slaughtered on a border town near Iran. No civil war to see here, keep moving.
Two roadside bombs blew up as an armed convoy used by President Talabani was traveling south of Kirkuk to Baghdad, the local police said. Insurgents then opened fire, killing two bodyguards and wounding six, Brig. Sarhad Qadir of the Kirkuk police said.
