{"id":236,"date":"2003-04-09T04:50:02","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=236"},"modified":"2022-02-22T04:51:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T04:51:39","slug":"is-the-war-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2003\/04\/09\/is-the-war-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the war over&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-9.png 437w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-9-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Came back from a day at work to my hotel room to find CNN reporting Iraqi &#8220;common people&#8221; toppling down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad&#8217;s al-Fardous square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was shocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An U.S. soldier had draped a U.S. flag over the face of the statue of Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why was I shocked? This demonstrates what some people (at war as well as at home) believes what this war is about; not regime change, not bringing democracy to Iraq &#8211; but a war that is purely US -vs- The Middle East, Bush -vs- Saddam. Greed over oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happened to what the rest of the world thinks? I think this is just a huge dab of salt over the open wound inflicted by the United States to the United Nations; whether or not it is truly the intention of the US government, at least it was demonstrated by one soldier. Whether or not it is a common sentiment amongst the troops I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least someone higher above (in ranks) had the sense to replace the U.S. flag with an Iraqi flag moments later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My final word:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US -vs- Iraq,&nbsp;<em>game over<\/em>.<br>US -vs- terrorists, Credit 2\/2,&nbsp;<em>Press START to begin.<\/em><br>US -vs- the World. Credit 1\/2.&nbsp;<em>Insert more coin(s) to continue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the U.N. Iraqi Ambassador (quickly and smartly, even smoothly) declared, &#8220;(this) game is over&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Came back from a day at work to my hotel room to find CNN reporting Iraqi &#8220;common people&#8221; toppling down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad&#8217;s al-Fardous square. I was shocked. An U.S. soldier had draped a U.S. flag over the face of the statue of Saddam Hussein. Why was I shocked? This demonstrates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}