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Bill O’Reilly Starts New Year With Another Flop
Posted: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:06:30 +0000
Not that I’ve come to expect any different, but Bill O’Reilly rang in the new year with another bucket of flop. On his syndicated radio show today, O’Reilly continued his usual modus operandi; first, whining about how liberal the press is and how we ought to be afraid of them. In roughly the next sentence Bill than contradicts himself by saying ‘nobody cares’ about the “dangerous” liberal press. Then, apparently flipping from flop back to flip, O’Reilly then said we should be concerned about how liberal the press has become because kids listen to these liberals–and, as Bill put it, that’s ‘not freedom.’ I guess what Bill was really saying in that segment of the show was that he really hates liberals in the press and he wants you to hate them too. Hard to say given all of his flipping and flopping on that one, but maybe he’ll make up his mind one of these days.
But it get’s better folks!
O’Reilly then kicks into another gear and starts to lament about Iraq. To be fair, Bill did say “I was wrong about our going into Iraq.” But then he simply blows the whole mess off onto the Iraqis claiming that ‘the U.S. nobly handed the Iraqis their freedom, but they don’t want it–they just want to kill each other.’ Of course, it couldn’t be the Bush Administration’s fault, could it? Guess not. O’Reilly really spilled a bucket of flop as he rambled on from there claiming that he ‘thought’ a lot about the Administration’s early claims that Iraqis would would greet the U.S. as liberators was actually quite understandable because the Kuwaiti’s greeted us as liberators when, as O’Reilly put it, “we rescued their butts” during the first Gulf War. So, why shouldn’t Rummy, Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Bush have thought that would be exactly what would happen in Iraq? That’s right ladies and gentlemen Bill figured that one all out all by himself. I just have one simple question for Bill: Have you been smoking crack today? I mean really, what the hell?
Reality for O’Reilly
Dear Bill,
I caught your radio show today and thought I might be able to lend you hand on a few facts that, as your good buddy George Bush would say, will educate you. First, you are right when you said the Kuwaitis, who were no particular friends of the United States before Iraq invaded them in 1990, really did greet American forces (well, we let Arab forces enter Kuwait City first) as liberators. You get one gold star for that assessment. Second, there are a few reasons why the Kuwaitis loved us in 1991 and a few more why Iraqis don’t:
So Bill, you’re damn right the Kuwaitis met us in the streets of Kuwait with open arms and hugs and kisses. We had just forced their oppressors out of their country. We didn’t destroy Kuwait. We didn’t completely fracture their economy, nor their society. We didn’t become their oppressors in the name of some ‘holy war’ pipe dream whipped up by a bunch of goofs who completely underestimated what would happen if we did invade and occupy Iraq, even though a plethora of experts from the Gulf War tried to warn them against doing so. Now, other than the fact that they just happen to reside in the same neighborhood, Kuwait in 1990 had about as much in common with Iraq in 2003 as Bush has with the truth over the past five years.
- We didn’t invade Kuwait because we falsely claimed they had weapons of mass destruction, or because they had ties to al Queda, or because—and this is important Bill—we decided to overthrow the Kuwaiti Royal family and install a U.S. led democracy there to give the Kuwaitis their freedom.
- We didn’t invade Kuwait because they were part of the Bush, Jr. “axis of evil.”
- We didn’t setup an occupation government in Kuwait, give billions of dollars in contracts to U.S. corporations, and we didn’t round up thousands of Kuwaitis and torture and abuse them in the most vile ways imaginable.
- Iraq did invade Kuwait, and Iraqi military forces did engage in systematic rape, torture, theft, and murder of Kuwaiti civilians.
- At the request of the legitimate Kuwaiti government, and with their full authority, and with the overwhelming support of the United Nations, and with a real coalition including a significant number of Arab countries—not the sham of a paid off coalition we used to invade Iraq—we did assemble nearly 500,000 people to expel Iraq’s forces from Kuwait.
- We did go to war with Iraq in 1991 because we had a strategic interest in protecting the regions oil supply from falling into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
I will give you this though, Bill: if you could arrive at such a pinhead explanation as to why Bush and company thought Iraqis would become our lifelong pals because we invaded and occupied their country I suppose it is possible that Bush and his ‘experts’ may well have concluded the same. If so, I can see why we are truly in the crapper in Iraq, and why nothing we do at this point will change that.
