thank you FOX for this
Stomping on Saddam
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
By Neil Cavuto
I want to talk to the French right now and the Germans and the
Russians. I want to talk to all those who opposed the liberation of
Iraq. I want to show you all something. I want to show you the joyous
scene in downtown Baghdad today.
People oppressed. Now people free. People once hopeless. Now hopeful.
People you forgot. But we remembered.
If you had things your way, they'd still be under the thumb of a
dictator. And you were fine with that. We were not. You had no
problem telling them, "live with it." We had a big problem telling
them, "get over it."
Look at their faces. See their smiles. And feel their joy, their
freedom and their fervor. How do you feel now? Still sure going the
extra mile for them wasn't worth it? I don't think they'd agree.
While you were debating, they were suffering. While you were
kowtowing (kissing ass) to a dictator you knew was an ogre, they were
enduring under a dictator they knew was even worse. They lived in
huts and tenements. He lived in castles. But that didn't bother you.
They scraped by to get morsels. You skulked by to get contracts. They
couldn't realize a penny from the oil that made Saddam rich. You
didn't seem to care, as long as it made you rich.
You opted for profit over principle and deals that made a dictator
richer and his people poorer. You argued the world had no right to
interfere in a sovereign nation. But you won't waste a nanosecond to
worm your way into this new nation. Now you want in, when for so long
the masses have been kept out.
You are as crass as you are cunning, as phony as you are pathetic.
I ask you to look at their faces. Then look at your own. See the
triumph of the human spirit and the coalition soldiers who fought and
died for it. Then see your own pathetic selves, who -- even now --
can't come close to appreciating it.
