War Without End
Selah.
Dear Leader actually held a press conference today, that is if you consider a press conference to be a room full of people asking questions while the person who's supposed to answer those questions tap-dances around and makes evasive non-resposnive remarks. At some moments it looked like he was just going to order one of the reporters shipped off to Guantanamo for having the temerity to question the President.
In response to one question, Bush said that it would be up to "future Presidents" to decide when to bring the troops home.
"Future Presidents?"
What ever happened to a quick victory? A coworker of mine is coming back from Iraq, having been lightly injured at some point in his tour. Another is deploying in June for 18 months. The Chowderhead-in-Chief is going to end up getting us all killed before long.
In other news ....
The Los Angeles Times, apparently making the mistake of drinking the water out there in Schwarzenegger's California, ran an article that posits a hideous alliance between the religious extremists running Iran and the religious extremists running al Qaeda. This is rather stupid, folks, because it presupposes that both sides will overlook the fact that they despise each other.
Let you in on a little secret - the reason I knew there was no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda was that Saddam distrusted Osama. Osama hated Saddam because he was a secular Muslim and (on the surface at least) a socialist.
So we have "government sources" trying to whip up the war fever again by conflating the Shiite government in Iran with the Sunni terrorists? Probably not going to happen, unless Dear Leader's Dark Minions decide to:
a) provoke an incident in Iraq that they can blame on Iran;
b) manufacture an incident that they can blame on Iran;
c) manufacture a terrorist incident on our own soil; or
d) just throw up their hands, yell "Screw it!" and bomb away without even the pretense of being provoked.
But by the time we finally get someone with enough testicular fortitude to declare victory and pull the troops out, the UAE and Saudi Arabia will be on the Iranian oil bourse, dealing in euros instead of dollars. Gasoline will be $10 a gallon, and George Bush will be seen on his yacht The Moneygrubber, sailing along Martha's Vineyard.
Dear Leader actually held a press conference today, that is if you consider a press conference to be a room full of people asking questions while the person who's supposed to answer those questions tap-dances around and makes evasive non-resposnive remarks. At some moments it looked like he was just going to order one of the reporters shipped off to Guantanamo for having the temerity to question the President.
In response to one question, Bush said that it would be up to "future Presidents" to decide when to bring the troops home.
"Future Presidents?"
What ever happened to a quick victory? A coworker of mine is coming back from Iraq, having been lightly injured at some point in his tour. Another is deploying in June for 18 months. The Chowderhead-in-Chief is going to end up getting us all killed before long.
In other news ....
The Los Angeles Times, apparently making the mistake of drinking the water out there in Schwarzenegger's California, ran an article that posits a hideous alliance between the religious extremists running Iran and the religious extremists running al Qaeda. This is rather stupid, folks, because it presupposes that both sides will overlook the fact that they despise each other.
Let you in on a little secret - the reason I knew there was no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda was that Saddam distrusted Osama. Osama hated Saddam because he was a secular Muslim and (on the surface at least) a socialist.
So we have "government sources" trying to whip up the war fever again by conflating the Shiite government in Iran with the Sunni terrorists? Probably not going to happen, unless Dear Leader's Dark Minions decide to:
a) provoke an incident in Iraq that they can blame on Iran;
b) manufacture an incident that they can blame on Iran;
c) manufacture a terrorist incident on our own soil; or
d) just throw up their hands, yell "Screw it!" and bomb away without even the pretense of being provoked.
But by the time we finally get someone with enough testicular fortitude to declare victory and pull the troops out, the UAE and Saudi Arabia will be on the Iranian oil bourse, dealing in euros instead of dollars. Gasoline will be $10 a gallon, and George Bush will be seen on his yacht The Moneygrubber, sailing along Martha's Vineyard.
posted by Walt at 4:06 PM
2 Comments:
Walt, you obviously don't know shit about wars or histroy! Troops are still in Japan and Germany 60 years after the fact! Troops still on the front lines in Korea since 1953, the only thing that keeps that war from starting back up is China. Those troops are on constant alert 24/7! We will be in the Middle East for the next 50 years as well. Freedom is not Free!! Get with it Walt! You had better get it together Walt before some sheik sticks a sword up your ass!! BW
Blazer, it's very true that "freedom isn't free," but deliberately picking fights when we're already stretched thin is pretty stupid. And whle you assert that we'll be in SW Asia for the next 50 years, may I remind you that the Pentagon and the President denied that we would build permanent bases in Iraq?
Now, let's get to the historical facts as you laid them out. Our military commitments in Germany were there for one reason - to keep the Soviets from invading. Now that Communism's no longer a threat, we've been drawing those forces down (and sending them to Iraq and Afghanistan. Our commitments in Japan are shrinking a swell. The armistice with the DPRK was never formalized into a peace treaty, so troops are kept there (and there is a growing number of people in the ROK who want us very much to leave).
Going too fast for you?
When you have something a bit deeper than mealy-mouthed platitudes and revisionist history, come back and hold a decent discussion.
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