...is the capture of Saddam Hussein really that significant?
Let's put the shoe on the other foot and suppose that the United States had twice been invaded by Iraq. Suppose over 200,000 American soldiers had been slaughtered by air power or buried alive in trenches by bulldozers in the first war. Some of these Americans would have been in full retreat and defenseless and turned into so-called crispy critters by airplanes firing rockets. Imagine that in both the first and second invasions of the United States by Iraq, tons of depleted uranium and thousands of cluster bombs had been used. What if thousands of American children had developed cancers and birth defects from the depleted uranium? Picture American children picking up cluster bombs thinking they are toys and being blown apart or losing limbs or their eyesight. Imagine that Iraq had kept a twelve year embargo on America that led to the deaths of over a million Americans, 500,000 of them being children. Imagine that Iraq had deliberately bombed America's infrastructure and embargoed the repair parts to fix the infrastructure, leading to contaminated water and sewage in the streets. What if Iraqi troops kicked in the doors of American homes and put hoods over people's heads and kept them shackled in uncomfortable positions for hours or took them away from their families to undisclosed locations? Suppose Americans realized that Iraq was occupying our country for its natural resources.
The American people would surely organize a resistance movement, and it wouldn't matter if George W. Bush was captured by the Iraqis or not. That chicken hawk obviously doesn't care to fight in wars anyhow. He'd much rather send someone from the working class to fight for him. Anyhow, the resistance would continue until all Iraqi soldiers left the United States.
