10 posts tagged “iraq”
In honor of Independence Day, show us something patriotic.
California is not subsequently consumed by the Fire of Hades. Surprise! Funny how the world doesn't end when things like this happen.
Meanwhile, the country continues to be embroiled in an immoral and
illegal war, the economy continues to creep toward complete meltdown,
and our president cravenly invokes "appeasement" for the purpose of
smearing a Democratic candidate while speaking in Israel. This
fucker still has half a year to destroy America, people. Don't
lose sight of that just because there's some good news from California.
I don't know about you, but I feel VICTORIOUS AS HELL.
WOO!!
'MERICA!
I only forgot the most important and fractious issue of our time, didn't I? Let people know how you feel about the Iraq conflict and war in general:
Every day, it seems, there is another story about support for the war plummeting. You know what? I was part of the 28% that didn't buy this bullshit from the very beginning. Now that everybody else is starting to wake up to the facts that this war is a fiasco, I gotta wonder: where the hell were you people back when it mattered?
Thing is, most of these people probably aren't against the war becasue it's illegal, or because the justification was built on a foundation of lies, or because of the rampant corruption and war-profiteering, or because we've made America less safe and more prone to acts of terrorism, or even the rising body count.
They're just bored of it.
America needs a new distraction, and the new season of American Idol isn't cutting it now that they've kicked off the slutty girl.
We may be easily duped, we may be easily swayed by cartoon rhetoric and demagoguery, but at least we've got a short attention span.
They were. They were wasted. More are being wasted, and more are being called upon to be wasted. When you send soldiers to fight an ill-defined and unwinnable war for the reasons of greed and hubris, and those soldiers die, that is the definition of "wasting a life".
Should have stuck to your guns on this one, Obama.
Read the article and tick 'em off. If you run out of fingers, go ahead and use your toes.
The doozy: "The minute we found out they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, I was the first to say so."
The minute you found out, huh? Well, that minute must have occured after every other informed source on the planet had already come to that conclusion, because I seem to recall this administration being the last to say so.
I also love his assertion that he doesn't sit around worrying about his legacy: Mr. President, that is patently obvious. Here are some other things he probably doesn't spend too much time frettin' about: civil liberties, the separation of church and state, the checks and balances of our three-branch government, and a rising toll of needlessly dead American soldiers.
I would never suggest that Saddam Hussein was a good man, nor that the world was better with him in it (although there is evidence that maybe Iraq was), but I can't help thinking that a dangerous precedent is being set. I'm not comfortable with a policy that dictates that we can invade another country, topple its government, capture its leaders then turn them over to a puppet-filled kangaroo court and execute them just because we suspect that maybe, possibly, there's a chance that that country might be a threat to us someday (oh, and, coincidentally, it's chock full of oil). Who's next? Iran? Syria? North Korea (oh, no, wait...they have nukes...they're a genuine threat)? How many more countries does Captain Bush of the Starship Democracy have in his Prime Directive-defiling sights? There's not a nation in this world that we can't trump up a justification for invading if we decide we want to do it badly enough. Is that a world, or an America, that you want to live in? I know I don't.
This is probably going to be trumpeted as a victory for peace and democracy by our Prez and Pals, but frankly, I'm rather disgusted.
Of course, I'm one of those rabid liberals who doesn't believe in the death penalty, not even for genocidal madmen, so what do I know?
"I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security."
--Gerald Ford, in an interview given to Bob Woodward in 2004.
Ford sharply criticized the Bush administration's justification for going to Iraq, as well as the overall evangelical plan of spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. Ford never publicly criticized the President, or, in fact, anybody, and he asked that the interview be withheld until his death.
More info at CNN.
Our President is reportedly "not satisfied" with the advice that he has been given over the past week by the Iraq Study Group, his Joint Chiefs of Staff, foreign leaders, every fucking citizen of the United States of America, Barney the White House Dog, and Jeebus.
What he wants to hear: "For the life of us, we can't think of ANYTHING DIFFERENT than what you're ALREADY DOING. So keep doing that!" (Then everybody gives him a big thumbs up, and they all sit down and eat pie, laughing and smearing whipped cream on each other's faces. The pie is so good, everybody forgets for a good ten minutes that a war is even happening.)
What he is actually being told: "For chrissakes, GET THE FUCK OUT OF THERE, ASSHOLE!"
So, you can see how maybe The Decider might not be satisfied right now.
