Via Jules Crittenden, this bit of moonbat craziness from that truthiness-teller Michael Moore.
The piece is so full of inaccuracies and dumb statements that it's hard to tell where to start. Well, let's just start at the beginning:
That's right. We were able to defeat all of Nazi Germany, Mussolini, and the entire Japanese empire in LESS time than it's taken the world's only superpower to secure the road from the airport to downtown Baghdad.
And we haven't even done THAT. After 1,347 days, in the same time it took us to took us to sweep across North Africa, storm the beaches of Italy, conquer the South Pacific, and liberate all of Western Europe, we cannot, after over 3 and 1/2 years, even take over a single highway and protect ourselves from a homemade device of two tin cans placed in a pothole. No wonder the cab fare from the airport into Baghdad is now running around $35,000 for the 25-minute ride. And that doesn't even include a friggin' helmet.
I guess Michael is only counting the actual time the U.S. was in World War II. Our allies were in the war nearly twice as long. Not to mention the fact that the loss of life was infinitely higher for both soldiers and civilians. But then, we didn't spend a lot of time worrying about civilian casualties, considering that Germany was bombing the hell out of Britain and Japan was committing atrocities like the rape of Nanking.
But I digress. More from Moore:
Is this utter failure the fault of our troops? Hardly. That's because no amount of troops or choppers or democracy shot out of the barrel of a gun is ever going to "win" the war in Iraq. It is a lost war, lost because it never had a right to be won, lost because it was started by men who have never been to war, men who hide behind others sent to fight and die.
Maybe Moore was a better scholar in school than I (*snicker*), but exactly which war did Franklin D. Roosevelt fight in? It seems to have escaped my memory.
There are many ways to liberate a country. Usually the residents of that country rise up and liberate themselves. That's how we did it.
Yes, and it helps if the country you are trying to free yourself from is more worried about losing its own land to a foreign tyrannical despot than losing a few colonies thousands of miles away. But I guess that's a small thing to Moore.
The one way that DOESN'T work is to invade a country and tell the people, "We are here to liberate you!" -- when they have done NOTHING to liberate themselves. Where were all the suicide bombers when Saddam was oppressing them? Where were the insurgents planting bombs along the roadside as the evildoer Saddam's convoy passed them by? I guess ol' Saddam was a cruel despot -- but not cruel enough for thousands to risk their necks. "Oh no, Mike, they couldn't do that! Saddam would have had them killed!" Really? You don't think King George had any of the colonial insurgents killed? You don't think Patrick Henry or Tom Paine were afraid? That didn't stop them. When tens of thousands aren't willing to shed their own blood to remove a dictator, that should be the first clue that they aren't going to be willing participants when you decide you're going to do the liberating for them.
I guess Moore never heard about the Kurds that Saddam gassed. Or the people tortured, raped, and murdered by Saddam's regime. And there weren't "tens of thousands" of Americans willing to shed their blood for independence. It was a relatively small but determined part of the population. Trying to compare the circumstances surrounding the Revolutionary War with the War in Iraq is simply specious.
There's much more idiocy in Moore's screed, but I won't spend more space putting his stupidity on display. There are more and better writers who have done it through the years, discussing both his personal stupid statements as well as the outright lies and paranoid conclusions he says in his "movies." But there was one thing Moore said in this piece I agreed with.
Because we are kept stupid through our pathetic education system and our lazy media, we knew nothing of history.
Michael Moore is Exhibit A for this statement.
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