Conspiracy theories for everything
: Aaron Bailey (who has been wise enough to stick to his knitting rather than get obsessed by this war thing) forwards a link to a huh-inducing piece of paranoia from Pacific News Service that argues that we didn’t win Iraq; it was handed to us: “Arabic media are speculating that a ‘safqa’ — Arabic for a secret deal — was arranged between the United States and the Baath regime to hand over Baghdad.”
If that were the case, we would not have lost as many lives as we did or dropped as many bombs. This is just a perverted bit of thinking to argue that we didn’t win, they didn’t lose, and conspiracies run the world.
