Exporting American Values?

Now that the valid-sounding excuses for invading Iraq, like Weapons of Mass Destruction, or al-Qaida links, have been thoroughly discredited, the latest reasoning has been that we are “exporting American values”. Well, lets see just what ideas have been successfully exported to Iraq:

We read every day about more killing in Baghdad, not to mention the rest of Iraq. Since US cities have the world’s highest murder rates, sounds like this important “value” got exported all right.

What is the cause of this violence? Intolerance between the different religious sects, for one. Apparently differing religious beliefs are no longer tolerated in Iraq. Sounds like the values of Pat Robertson and the religious right have a firm foothold in Iraq now.

What is the Iraq government doing about this? Lots of words and no action. Apparently, they have more important things to worry about than the welfare of ordinary citizens. Sounds like a perfect copy of the Bush administration priorities.

Despite being one of the largest suppliers of oil in the world, Iraq has been having severe problems supplying its own citizens with gasoline. Not to mention that billions of dollars worth of oil revenue has somehow disappeared. Remember Enron and so-called power shortage in California? Sounds like the “values” of corporate corruption and theft have found a home in Iraq as well.
So sounds like Bush has finally found a true justification for his war. The only question now is how to properly reward him for his efforts. Something like bringing him in front of the world court for crimes against humanity sounds good.