Is Iraq War 'Noble, Just and Necessary'?

On the 5th anniversary of start of the Iraq War, the man who thinks he rules the world gave a speech in which he announced the Iraq War is 'noble, just, and necessary' and claimed victory was now within sight.
This is a man who struggles to construct coherent and grammatical sentences ('Is our children learning?'). But his verbal dexterity is greatly improved when such sentences include expressions of America's military might and avowed intention to dominate the world, or set out the supposedly grave threats facing the world's only hyperpower (these threats are constituted by any impediment to America's capability to make a profit). Then, suddenly George W. Bush is almost eloquent, because what seems to matter to him most is making money and impressing his countrymen with boasts about how great America is. A perfect combination, one might say, for a country that considers the rest of the world to be its own backyard yet is almost totally ignorant of anything that happens beyond the local Walmart.
Down on our little allotment in South Gloucestershire in the good old Dis-United Kindgom (a little cul-de-sac on the edge of Europe that is now merely a supine colony of the US) my best mate Nosher and me were debating the merits of the President's speech.
'The words "noble, just, and necessary" sound incongruous in connection with the Iraq War' opined Nosher 'and when they're uttered by a man with little grasp of what the concepts actually mean I think we can dismiss them as idle propaganda'.
'I think the words "brutal, stupid and pointless" are closer to the truth' I replied 'when one considers that Iraq was on the verge of total economic and political collapse when the war started, due to twelve years of UN sanctions.'
'And' added Nosher 'there were no weapons of mass destruction, which the American Government must have known since it boasted its spy satellites could see every square inch of Iraq in great detail. In reality, Bush and his cronies wanted Iraq's oil, and America has a long history of invading countries simply in order to make a profit out of them.'
We leant on our spades and looked up at a solitary crow flying past.
'They didn't learn much from Vietnam, did they?' I said. 'The Iraq War will end up costing much more than the lives of Americans and Iraqis - the long-term outcome may be the collapse of America's position in the world'.
The crow settled on a beech tree a hundred yards away and cawed at us.
'Well' said Nosher with evident satisfaction 'America is now the world's largest debtor nation, and spends an enormous proportion of its GDP on sustaining the world's largest and most technologically advanced military, and a tiny proportion of its GDP on foreign "aid", the latter being merely a device used to enslave the recipients to America's will. Meanwhile its own population has a falling life-expectation and poorer health than most other developed countries - because the rich are too selfish to fund a proper welfare system for the poor'.
'The US is the most aggressive, selfish, and greedy country in the world' I concluded 'and also the most self-deceiving. The sooner its creditors pull the plug on it and induce it to start behaving like a civilised country the better, although I guess there's a serious risk America will see this as an act of hostility and start yet another pointless war and kill lots of innocent people in the process.'
'Yep' agreed Nosher 'any country that thinks victory is constituted by expelling Al Qaeda from Iraq when it wasn't even in Iraq at the beginning of the war that was ostensibly started to expel Al Qaeda is facing an uncomfortable reality-check at some point in time.'
'All we can hope for is that the self-deceiving idiots who rule the Dis-United Kingdom develop sufficient insight to leave America to its fate and make this country independent once again' I said 'although the chances of that are so slim I guess we have to accept the inevitable. The UK is doomed - just as you said a few days ago, Nosher'.
The crow launched itself from the beech tree and flapped lazily away in the direction of America. Probably a secret robotic spy aircraft that had already reported our conversation to the CIA.
'Might as well get the rest of my seed potatoes in the ground' said Nosher 'then I can restrict my reliance on the products of the big food corporations to as little as possible.'
As we both commenced digging again I couldn't help wondering how a species that prefers to spend its time passively watching junk television rather than attempting to discover the truth about what is done in their name could possible survive for very much longer. And I don't just mean the inhabitants of the US. In the Dis-United Kingdom our population is rapidly becoming just as adept at harbouring deliberate ignorance as part of their process of self-deception. Personally, I prefer vegetables. They're less self-deceiving.
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