Letters to the Editor
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Dunciad, Kapitel 242: der ewige Shooter tauchte wieder auf
Winning is a function of the Commander in Chief. -- shooter242
In case anyone visiting from a neighboring planet finds this pearl of wisdom obscure, please be advised that the source was definitely not the Constitution of the United States of America.
I believe that if you turn it over, shooter, you'll find a lottery number on the other side. Martin Bormann survived, you see, and is communicating with the faithful still from his hidden location in a fortune cookie factory.
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This is really good and really awful
It is really good that someone "gets it" and can write about it and lead a reader through a sequence of observations that makes some sense.
It is equally awful that our current administration seems to grow smaller...not just on matters Iraq and resolution....but seems to be the incredible shrinking ruling elite. There seems to be no new blood or those willing to join it. It keeps eating its own - recycling persons from one spot to another - heck, I'm still waiting for Karl Rove to take over for Katrina Relief Efforts (remember???) but now fear he will be made Herr Kommander of Iraq just because Harriet Miers is busy preparing for either testimony or jail.
I predict that on the last day of Mr. Bush's office he will be down to 1 able secretary who will be typing the ultimate Iraq no holds barred win at whatever the cost surge of the mother of surges surge plan.
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re: A day of rest.
Could we think about picking a day--May Day, say, since we have already missed Patriot's Day--to just plain ignore Shooter242?
-- caiubi
I absolutely agree. I am fine with tossing the occasional observation into the mix and leaving it at that. Ordinarily, I could and do ignore to more inane responses, but for the past three days I've been holed up in a Wash. DC hotel trying to evade the noreaster and get in some golf. No luck yet though, and that leaves me looking for a distraction. And yes, you people are very entertaining.
The upside at the moment is that my windows overlook "K" St. and the sun is peeking out. Keep your fingers crossed.
P.S. to Sysprog.... Sure, Congress can vote verbiage to surrender all it likes, but getting it past a veto and public humiliation is another story altogether. Good luck with that, heh.
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'Small, powerful group' = Agents for big oil
Glenn, you're missing a very important point. Bush and Cheney are agents for big oil and as such will keep our troops in Iraq so long as there is a chance of Exxon-Mobil and BP getting control of that oil. Meanwhile, gasoline consumption in the US continues to rise, so we are all complicit in the enterprise. I find that imagining a little spurt of blood going into my tank every time I fill up is helpful for maintaining mindfulness about the true cost of gasoline. In fact, when traffic is heavy and the light is right you can see a blood red haze over every street and highway in the US...
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Shooter
Congress can vote verbiage to surrender all it likes, but getting it past a veto and public humiliation is another story altogether. Good luck with that, heh.
At this point a veto would be a victory for Congress, the American people want out of Iraq and a veto will drive the point home like a sledgehammer just which party is obstinately opposed to the will of the people.
To misquote the Deciderer: "Bring it on".
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Shooter the Troll
*sigh* Shooter is a common troll, whose primary purpose (like all trolls) is to disrupt the normal flow of conversation. I could understand, perhaps, why a newcomer who doesn't typically read the comments section would address him.
But I don't get why the regulars do that. You're just giving him exactly what he wants.
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The Iraq Civil War
So, this is just like the Civil War in 1964 when Lincoln was just about to loose it?
So what do we want? For a new American Sherman to cut across Iraq, destroy every factory, every farm and every shred of infrasctructure and with "total war" prevent them from having even the hope of resisting? To force everyone one he encountered into devistation and poverty?
Sherman did what he had to do at that time. And it worked. But for a hundred years the South has hated him for it. It was horrific. I doubt the American public, or the world, would allow it to happen today, or that it could be forgiven in another hundred years.
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Fishtail said it clearly and succinctly...
Bush and Cheney are agents for Big Oil. That is the only explanation for their stubbornness and apparent stupidity. Iran, Russia, Mexico, and the Saudis have all reached "Peak Oil". Iraq has the only oil that was apparently up for grabs. Big Oil makes big money out of "owning" the oil in the ground, not by being a service industry to oil owning governments. Installation of a puppet government in Iraq, which Big Oil has a long history of doing everywhere else, would allow most of the profit from Iraq oil to flow to Big Oil. The law that is in the Iraqi parliament now does just that. Without that profit Big Oil would gradually lose its ability to dominate American politics. Right now no one can be elected president without campaign money from Big Oil. Democrats are just as controlled as Republicans. The destruction of the ability of Big Oil to control US politics is critical to our survival as a Democracy. To that extent the enemies of our enemies are our friends.
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Out of touch?
I'm not sure it has much to do with being out of touch. Staying forever is the only way that their buddies in the Military-Industrial Complex can keep lining their pockets with gold. My biggest fear is that they know exactly what they're doing.
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Simplicity itself
But I don't get why the regulars do that. -- Michael Birk
Comic relief. What was good enough for the immortal bard is good enough for me.
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THANK YOU
I thought it was only me.
I thought the Neocons were ALWAYS saying, "We are winning. We are doing better than last month." No matter what month of what year, that is what I heard.
I am glad others noticed it, too.