David Kreps Blog

Liberated Iraq Abuses Freedom to Kill Gay Men with Abandon

Investigating reports of the murder and torture of gay men in Iraq, (BBC News) found that some gays found Saddam Hussein's dictatorship preferable to the threat of violence they face today.

Were we really conned by our leaders into prosecuting a disastrous war in a far-flung land to enable such murderous bigotry to prevail? Is this what the brave young men and women of this country fought - and died - for? I think not. I am incensed!

OK, so it is a very partisan straw to break the camel's back of my silence, in this blog, on the prosecution of Western wars in the Middle East, but we are all human, and every one of us who has despaired of the lies of the great and the good that brought about such wars has done so in some way or other in connection to a personally held belief or connection, and I am no different. I voted for Blair in 1997, and, like most, lost faith in him when he took us to war. He did so, I still like to believe, out of some religious conviction. Yet the man he followed - Bush - did so out of nothing less than greed. As Hollywood put it, "There's no such thing as Shia and Shiite, Christian and Muslim, West and East..... there's only the haves and the have nots." [spoken by an oil tycoon Senator in the Mark Wahlberg movie, 'Shooter']. Bush was working for his own clan, the 'haves', regardless of what Blair thought was going on. And quite clearly so was Brown, regardless of what froth from the orgy of profit he stoked that he has tried to dole out to the needy in overcomplicated credits.

I supported the war against the Taliban, [murderous homophobes that they are,] for a while, against my better nature, because of their practice of knocking stone walls upon gay men - their customary capital punishment for gay Afghans, amongst their many other crimes.

The Iraq war by contrast has been a fiasco from the start, and for this to be what we have freed the Iraqi people to do - well I am disgusted. Bring back Saddam Hussein!

 

 

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