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I'm going to get a little political again today. It's about this war thing - have you noticed that going on? Bush is on the other side of the world stridently reading his points as though they mean anything. Cheney is somewhere growling attacks (lashing out at his critics so they say). Is ANYBODY going to fall for this rhetoric? Give me a break. Unfortunately for them, this was all recent history, and nobody needs to rewrite it except them. They were the ones stomping around the world twisting everyone's arms to go along with their invasion (remember what sticks-in-the-mud those Frenchies, Russkies, and Germans were, for example?). And if you were an American politico at the time you would have looked like a lilly-livered coward who wanted 911 to happen again if you raised objections. Us regular folks didn't know what to think, until they got in there and didn't find any weapons and on and on, and the one big accomplishment is to get a tin-horn dictator in front of a kangaroo court. So, my two main objections this morning:
1. Bush (for obvious reasons) refuses to call this thing The War In Iraq, unlike everyone else. He keeps saying "We have to win the War on Terror." What does that mean? When the country of Iraq is pretty much flattened out and then rebuilt by Haliburton, with permanent U.S. bases surrounded by civil war, will we have won his War on Terror? Will that keep anyone from ever blowing up hotels in Jordan again? Please don't insult us with meaningless doublespeak, Mr. President.
2. The shift in priorities from actual security. Katrina was extremely instructive. I just saw a report that the cargo holds in our airliners can be about half-full of unscreened junk from who knows where. Guess what stands in the way of fixing it -- they don't know what to do because it would cost about 4 billion dollars. Gasp! 4 big billion. I guess they couldn't get their hands on Bush's credit card. I checked this morning and apparently the Iraq thing has cost about 220 billion and counting. I'm no mathemetician, but...
Oh well, if you're not a left-wing pinko I'm sure you're brain is buzzing with objections. Write them up in your own blog.
I'm going to get a little political again today. It's about this war thing - have you noticed that going on? Bush is on the other side of the world stridently reading his points as though they mean anything. Cheney is somewhere growling attacks (lashing out at his critics so they say). Is ANYBODY going to fall for this rhetoric? Give me a break. Unfortunately for them, this was all recent history, and nobody needs to rewrite it except them. They were the ones stomping around the world twisting everyone's arms to go along with their invasion (remember what sticks-in-the-mud those Frenchies, Russkies, and Germans were, for example?). And if you were an American politico at the time you would have looked like a lilly-livered coward who wanted 911 to happen again if you raised objections. Us regular folks didn't know what to think, until they got in there and didn't find any weapons and on and on, and the one big accomplishment is to get a tin-horn dictator in front of a kangaroo court. So, my two main objections this morning:
1. Bush (for obvious reasons) refuses to call this thing The War In Iraq, unlike everyone else. He keeps saying "We have to win the War on Terror." What does that mean? When the country of Iraq is pretty much flattened out and then rebuilt by Haliburton, with permanent U.S. bases surrounded by civil war, will we have won his War on Terror? Will that keep anyone from ever blowing up hotels in Jordan again? Please don't insult us with meaningless doublespeak, Mr. President.
2. The shift in priorities from actual security. Katrina was extremely instructive. I just saw a report that the cargo holds in our airliners can be about half-full of unscreened junk from who knows where. Guess what stands in the way of fixing it -- they don't know what to do because it would cost about 4 billion dollars. Gasp! 4 big billion. I guess they couldn't get their hands on Bush's credit card. I checked this morning and apparently the Iraq thing has cost about 220 billion and counting. I'm no mathemetician, but...
Oh well, if you're not a left-wing pinko I'm sure you're brain is buzzing with objections. Write them up in your own blog.
posted by Dan Thomason | 8:26 AM
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