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October 08, 2004
How About an Amendment to Protect Marriage in Iraq?
It seems the U.S. government is trying to do for marriage in Iraq what it has done for marriage in the U.S.
An airstrike killed 14 people and wounded 16 during a wedding party, according to hospital officials in the unstable city of Falluja, but the U.S. military said its planes had targeted a terrorist safe house.
How many times have we been through this before? I believe this is at least the second time in Iraq, plus at least once in Afghanistan. The pattern is always the same: the "liberated" populace says a wedding party was killed, the U.S. says it was a "terrorist safe house," and then the proof (not yet forthcoming in this instance) that it was a wedding surfaces.
I predict a rise in cohabitation and illegitimacy in Iraq as a result of this pattern of behavior on the part of the occupying troops. Isn't that what the compassionate conservative supporters of George W. Bush were hoping for?
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 8, 2004 01:18 PM