Letters to the Editor
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AGAIN: FROM OUR OWN GLORIOUS HISTORY! NO INJUNS, NO RESERVATIONS, only Turkeys!
Those many, many years ago in SALEM, Mssachusetts
when they did not have'Bunker Buster Bombs',
they had the most PURITAN of weapons;
the 'Blunderbus'
and the 'Witch Hunt'.
Same senario, same personages,
just a different Warlock.
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The only exit out of Iraq...
..will be by way of getting rid of Bush and Cheney. And I'm betting it will be the Republicans who finally get rid of them.
Bush and Cheney may very well opt for the choice of impeachment or resignation rather than ever admit defeat.
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American disinterestedness
Since 2003 American newspapers make a daily count of dead in Iraq available. My question is where was this information from 1979-2002? It seems American didn't care how many Iraqis died before Americans started dying in Iraq in 2003. It also sounds like many American want to withdraw American troops from Iraq so they don't have to pay attention again.
The one group of Americans I know who do care about Iraqis are the members of the American military in Iraq now. They care enough to risk their lives to keep Iraqis from dieing every single day. I hope they don't go home so fewer Iraqis will die tomorrow and America won't ignore death in Iraq like it did from 1979-2002 when thousands of Iraqis died every year.
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We blundered into Iraq for made-in-ISRAEL reasons.
Obviously Zionist lobbying in America has a vast and effective pull in the government. Blatantly America has seen Israel spying on America, and even outsourcing telecommunications billing to them. The undeniable force of Zionism is what drove America to accept Arabs as their enemies. They certainly treat them shamefully, as if the Americans have long standing prejudices and animosity towards them. Jewish people are Good, Zionism is Bad. The interests of Zionism in America are the worst aspects to this whole deception. We cannot let other countries subvert our nation! Zionists are the most racist people on this Earth. They think only Israelis are truly human and that their land is the most valuable in the world. Thats why they have plenty of nuclear weapons to disregard all else but themselves.
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The President Pelosi Protocol
I see a bicameral, bi-party caucus in DC come next spring. A brilliant solution will be considered and adopted by both parties.
The Republicans have mucked up the national life royally. That's actually their objective, as they represent those who benefit by federal weakness. But now they have a real crisis on their hands. Why not take a hiatus while the flood is raging, come back when the old neighborhood's a soppy ruin? Like FEMA.
There will be a very quick double impeachment of both Howdy Doody and his Buffalo Bob. The Republicans can then gear up their standard campaign - impugning President Pelosi. Didn't she profit from a land deal in Marin County some decades back?
And she won't be able to find a solution to the various messes left her by blunderbush and his puppeteers. Not in two years she won't. Neither could God. It's a natural campaign issue in 2008.
Prevent Pelosi! She lost Iraq for us.
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Great photo
This was an excellent article. Short, succint and so sad. I want to commend you on your photos lately. As someone who doesn't watch tv, your visual effects are so telling. The last few week's published photos of W tell more than a thousand words. He looks like a very defeated man. I thought this would make me feel good, but it doesn't at all.
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Bush is getting out
The Decider said that Rumsfeld would stay until 2009. Then he fired him. He now says that we will stay the course in Iraq. I don't believe him. He is casting about for the least ignominious way to abandon the country he wrecked. He can't admit that he is taking the advice of his father's fixer, but that is exactly what he will do. He has no alernative. The only question is how to play it at home. The commander in chief must always stand tall and the Democrats must be at leastly partly to blame. Another 9/11 would be a God-send about now, or maybe not. Better check with Karl about that one.
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No graceful exit, but at least we can back to the beginning.
Since there is no graceful exit, we might as well do what we know will work: BRING SADDAM HUSSEIN BACK.After all, he was holding the equilibrium of power, and by invading Iraq we disturbed the equilibrium. Lets bring the balace back. Anyway, fewer people died under Hussein than under Bush. What Iraq needs right now is a strong hand.And a little brutality, if properly applied, might save many lives.We do not have another way, lets do what worked.
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Dave Thomas
Your sentiments are understandable. As applied to Iraq, only. As applied to the world at large? There is a world at large, Dave. There, your narrow views and justification for trillions of dollars spent in Iraq, to no apparent avail, are "not understandable". Do you understand? Aren't you an administration apologist? Think about it.
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Un-graceful end
" Sadly, the same it's-only-about-America self-absorption will probably dictate the timing and nature of the decision to give up and come home."
Even more sadly, America will bear the brunt of the fallout. This seems a strange and heartless thing to say, since most of the loss of life will happen in Iraq, and if we think we've seen the worst of the civil war in that region, we ain't seen nothing yet. However, unless something very radical changes very soon in the way in which the United States approaches world politics, the Iraq War will give us a very nasty push off the pedestal. And I must say, at the risk of sounding elitist, that the United States has much farther to fall than Iraq, or pretty much any other nation in the Middle East.
It would be nice if, like England, we can stoically withstand the fall of our empire and move on. However, keep in mind: England's Empire began crumbling in earnest at the beginning of the first World War and came to an end shortly after the Second World War, a time in which England itself went through a very hard time (loss of life and everything) and barely escaped destruction. Is this what this Iraq War is the beginning of for the United States? If we keep doing the same old crap, it could be.
I don't want to be a doomsday prophet. Societies, after all, always teeter on the brink of oblivion. A state of controlled crisis is our normal state. However, it does not take much for the crisis to intensity, and remember: in addition to Iraq, there is Afghanistan. If you think those countries are far away, remember 9/11. If there is anything that day should have taught us is that if someone hates us enough, they can reach us across oceans. And George W. Bush and his band of thugs has stirred up, quite brazenly, not one but two very nasty wasp nests.
Flush with our righteous victory in the Second World War and our perceived righteous victory in the Cold War, the United States lost sight of the fact that our allies don't like us anymore, and our enemies are no longer afraid of us. We responded to that environment by electing hardliners who decided that picking on the little guy will improve our international standing. As a result we have sacrificed thousands of lives, pissed a lot of people off, confirmed the most vitriolic rhetoric spouted by the likes of Chavez, Nasrallah and Ahmadinejad, and filled the terrorist training camps to capacity. It seems to me that our troubles are just beginning, and an un-graceful exit from Iraq is the least of our worries.