Even as Beloved Leader makes his impassioned pleas for "freedom" in cemetaries where his lying, deserting, disprespectful ass makes mockery of the brave soldiers laid to their final rest there, the "mission accomplished" violence continues in Iraq.
...In the week since a new cabinet was formed, about 250 Iraqis have been slaughtered in car bombings and other bloody attacks, a pace as relentless and heartless as any since the fall of Saddam Hussein more than two years ago. ...
The insurgents, many of whom would be killing each other if they weren't so busy killing Americans and our coalition-of-the-purchased allies and their fellow Iraqis have a credo that has become their strategy: 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend. At least for today.'
...the insurgents are actually several groups of people who might share tactics, but possess different motivations and long-term objectives.
The longer we're there, the less the rhetoric is going to be about "freedom" "democracy" and rebuilding Iraq, and more about "staying the course" (sound familiar?). One day soon, some wingnut politician will use the term "Haji" on the floor of the Congress, and on that day we will have lost.
If the spineless cocksuckers in Congress had taken their role of oversight instead of rubber-stampery seriously, we might not be in this mess today. Is it just me, or will history perhaps judge folks like Tom Delay less as failures for their predictable hubris and greed and more for their jingoistic, flag-waving bloodthirsty support for unneeded military action to satisfy the tantrum of a spoiled child selected by an accident of fate and placed in power by his daddy's bondsmen?
The Iraqi insurgency is providing answers to questions we never needed to ask...and they are not answers that seem to fit in Preznit Lucky Sperm's world view: one size does not fit all.
posted by Jo Fish on 05.08.05 at 08:49 AM
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I think we lost the war the day we fired on the Iraqi Army demonstrators when they were only asking for their pay.
Actually we lost when the fucking cowards fired the generals who told them they needed more people on the ground. And put some Perfumed Prince in charge, a man very good at sucking up to Rumsfailed and very bad at conducting a war.
posted by: merlallen on 05.08.05 at 02:02 PM [permalink]
Here are some quotes from a letter to the preznit posted by a Gold Star Mother:
http://www.angelfire.com/sk3/spkhntrca/Casey.html
"Dear George,
You don’t mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis...George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey. All of this lying, fooling, and betraying must be “hard work” George. You really think you know what hard work is?...George, let me tell you what “hard work” really is...Hard work is seeing your oldest son, your brave and honorable man-child go off to a war that had, and still has, no basis in reality. Hard work is worrying yourself gray and not being able to sleep for 2 weeks because you don’t know if your child is safe...Hard work is seeing your son’s murder on CNN one Sunday evening while you’re enjoying the last supper you’ll ever truly enjoy again...Hard work is having three military officers come to your house a few hours later to confirm the aforementioned murder of your son…your first born…your kind and gentle sweet baby..."
posted by: Nina on 05.08.05 at 02:26 PM [permalink]
