Spurred on by the idiocy of the whole idea, I decided to make a site to cheerlead for the "other" viewpoint. I'm going to make the point that their whole frame is wrong and they lose no matter what to Exxon/Halliburton and the whole "disaster capitalist" crew (as Naomi Klein calls them). I'll argue that the real battle of the 21st century is to regain control of our government from unpatriotic corporations who abuse the sacrifice of our patriots. Companies who move their profits to Dubai after seizing oilfields at the cost of American lives, fighting off alternative energy, manipulating oil prices through the strategic petroleum reserve, and sucking us dry.

We (Americans) lose, they (oil barons) win. Dot-com.

If anyone's interested in participating, I'll probably throw up a link to submit letters of support and further ideas after I find time to finish this over the weekend. I'll write in again when the site's ready. Peace.

The final line of the Victory Manifesto seems to sum up this war with surprising honesty:

"There can be one and only one outcome in Iraq: We win, they lose."

We get to sit here in front of our screens and watch, while the Iraqis get to act out this tragedy...

Help. help help, yelp.

I say no vote for the ball team called the orioles.

When Hoyt Wilhelm left,

Ang Gus Traindos to,

Every since that time they stink, stink, stink.

No to the Peter Angelos Law Firm,

nope, nope, nope.

What's going on, on, What!

I was cheerful when this tread was dead,

nope, nope, nope.

"'Of the people, by the people,' has had its day,

The law's what we decide it is, and troops will stay,

Your support means nothing next to "Kenny Boy" Lay,

If you don't like us, meet Guantanamo Bay!"

Or...

"The intelligence was fixed around the policy,

The President's the puppet, the Puppeteer is Cheney,

And the press has been distracted by the cocktail weenies,

Welcome to the New American Century!"

And finally...

"The President swore an oath upon the Constitution,

But it doesn't apply to him, and that's the solution!"

Our beloved post nixonian band aide aside from other bromidic and palliative relief also was an accomplished cheerleading comic . WIN . This cute little acronym was the Republican ideal formalised in the seventies as access to the solution of stagflationary malaise . Whip Inflation Now . This unfortunately was absorbed by miracles studios and defied most non yogi's with M Chambers enthusiastic performances .

On a more sobering note if this is a duplicate post - Begging Forgiveness - after reading three pages of letters I must hurry off to work .

Was Bill crystal ever a cheerleader????

How about Wolfowitz or Perle??? Just wondering since they are ever so good at it. Afterall, Project for the new american century is probably based on a cheer....

This has nothing to do with the Frist Manifesto, but I live in Nashville and happened to eat lunch at the same place as Bill last Saturday. It's the sort of spot where you have to stand in line to order then go get in another line to pay, things that regular folks do every day. I must say it did my heart good to see this man, who I had previously met, back before he made such an ass of himself on the national stage, to see him have to stand in line like the rest of us. I was sorely tempted to talk to him, but I was afraid that I would completely lose my cool and end up screaming. It felt like a statement to me to just ignore the monster, who kept looking around like he was waiting for someone to recognize him. In the music business here we say the only thing for celebs thats worse than being recognized in public is to NOT BE RECOGNIZED. So I didn't recognize him, and neither did anyone else. He has been an embarassment to Nashville, and I'm sorry to hear that he's back in business.

By the way, I also have heard from a good source that Frist is planning on running for governor next, which would be awful, though I'm thinking he would have a hard time being elected.

Perhaps someone else posted already, I only went through a few comments...

This is fitting. Since our president was a cheerleader at prep school, it only makes sense that he would naturally attract more cheerleaders as followers. I may have read that in The Secret.

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushcheerleader.htm

Actually, this is childishly easy to deconstruction. I'll take it one over-simplified point at a time. And I'll try to use short words that even a "loyal Bushie" can understand.

1) They never say what "winning" is.

2) Back in the day, they did say what "winning" was--Saddam out of power, no WMDs, a democratic government in Iraq--and by that criteria, we've already "won." So why are we still there?

3) What's really "standing by the troops?" Bringing them home and/or sending them someplace where they have clear goals (e.g., Afghanistan to find Osama bin Laden), or leaving them in the middle of a civil war?

4) Iraq already is an "unchecked den of terrorists," thanks to the failed policies of this bunch of boneheads. (Of course, their terrorist acts are tribe-against-tribe . . .) Has this crowd of "slow bleed" advocates failed to notice this inconvenient fact?

5) And finally, the Democrats aren't holding the funding hostage; it's the President who is doing so against the will of both the American people, the Iraqi people, and to the detriment of the troops under him.

We won the war. There are no WMDs. Saddam is dead. bin Laden is in Afghanistan. America wants its troops home. Iraq wants America out. Why on Earth are we still there?

“truth” “bad guys” “victory” “wartime” “right and wrong” “stable and peaceful society”

We don’t need to define any of these items. Everybody knows what they mean; come on it’s a “no-brainer”...

They mean whatever our dictatorially empowered leader says they mean.