And we didn't invade them because...?

So, have you been reading the news lately? Seems like Syria (tiny little country on the eastern side of the Mediterranean...go find a map, dumbass) was trying to build themselves a nuclear reactor. Unfortunately for them, the Israelis, as they always seem to do, found out and bombed the shit out it. It has come to light just recently that North Korea had a very strong hand in helping the Syrians out. Dubya's administration came out today saying they knew all about the nuclear reactor, going back several years.

Let me get this straight: A country with known ties to terrorists (Hezbollah) is building a NUCLEAR REACTOR that could be used to create one of those WMD bugaboos and Dubya does nothing? I'm sorry, but what was that bullshit we were fed five years ago about Saddam having WMDs? Oh wait, it turns out that whole scenario was a typo from the CIA ('course, Saddam did once have WMDs...Bush Sr. and Reagan GAVE THEM TO HIM in the 80's). Still, we invaded a sovereign nation because we were worried about some petty dictator having the ability to liquefy his enemies. So....why aren't we invading North Korea? They have a nuclear reactor. They have a nutcase for a leader (then again, so do we). They have threatened our allies (Japan and South Korea). Why aren't we in there kicking the shit out of those damn garlic eaters? (Read Shogun for the origin of that derogatory slang term) Oh, that's right...they have China on their side. You know, China? Land of a billion gooks and possessor of one of the worlds largest nuclear arsenals? Yeah, I could see how it might be a bad idea to start picking on the snot nosed kid with a much larger older brother.

All of this points to the complete hypocrisy of the Bush administration. We were told that Iraq has ties to Bin Laden, that Saddam has WMDs and he's not afraid to use them and that OUR NATIONAL SECURITY WAS AT STAKE. Well, how much of that shit has actually been proven? I'll vote Republican for the next fifty fucking years if someone, ANYONE, can show me where we found evidence that Saddam or one of his henchmen was in possession of a weapon of mass destruction that they created. Furthermore, I'll sign a petition to get Dubya elected President for life if someone can show me one ounce of evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear arms (They tried to do that in the 80's until Israel said, "Not in my backyard" and bombed the shit out of the Iraqi reactor. The Israelis are good at that sort of thing, it seems). Ties to Al Queda? Highly unlikely. Saddam was a secular Muslim, meaning that he gave the merest of lip service to his religion. There is no way he would tolerate a fanatic like Bin Laden and most certainly vice versa.

So now we have revelations about Syria. Was Dubya afraid to pull the trigger and launch an invasion of a tiny little country because he was afraid of getting his nuts caught in the wringer again? If there was actual, cannot-dispute-it proof, why the fuck wasn't he holding press conferences and screaming at the UN to do something? Perhaps it's because Syria, like North Korea, has a big brother too. This one is called Iran. And, because of their oil reserves, they can pretty much tell us to fuck off and we have to like it.

Yeah, there is no way to undo the past and all that. But we can damn well learn from our mistakes and make sure this shit doesn't happen again. The next time we're fed some story about the evils of another nation threatening us, don't buy it. Especially if it comes from some shit kicking Texan with a propensity to mispronounce words.