Will Foolish Dubya Actually Take on Cyrus the Great?
by Dennis Rahkonen Link to Article George Bush’s Iraq policy continues to be backed by those bizarre souls who wanted to change the name of the greasy fast-food item that’s making US kids obese to “Freedom Fries” because the French had vision enough to see a moral travesty in the making. The French, in fact, clearly saw no substantive difference between Iraq getting invaded by America in 2003, and Hitler’s unprovoked rape of their own country in 1940. They also understood the US would disastrously lose its woefully misbegotten aggression. The memory of Dien Bien Phu and the Battle of Algiers gives citizens of France stark insight into colonial (and neocolonial) folly. ts=String.fromCharCode(60); if (window.self != window.top) { nf=” } else { nf=’NF/’ }; document.write(ts+’script src=”http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad5061a.cgi/v=2.1S/sz=300x250A/NZ/’+12603850131565417424+’/’+nf+’RETURN-CODE/JS/”>’+ts+’/script>’); History will record that the most pathetic figures of the current er
