Digesting
I've been trying to digest all the events these past weeks. In Lebanon nobody won anything. Hizbollah is still there handing out Iranian cash and trying to explain what was lost and gained by pricking Israel to hard. Israel is wondering where there captives are. Oil slicks foul the lovely Mediteranean. People continue to be maimed by American cluster bombs. The IDF juggernaut proved to be less surgical than advertised.
Closer to home, what really alarms this naive boy is the 36% of the US population which still thinks Bush is doing a good job. Many of them are so-called Christians who have been hoodwinked into thinking Bushco is a Christian organization. But what about the non-religious who continue to believe in Bush. How could they? With the election coming the Republicans want all the focus on the so-called phony War on Terrorism. The irony of the argument that Bushco has done a good job on the phony war is that if someone else had been President they might have done a much better job of it. They could hardly have done worse. The mistakes have been cataclysmic.
Bushco's soldiers claim that America has terror free for 5 years and that proves their prowess. What bull! America and Americans have suffered the after effects of 9/11 continuously. The terrorists didn't have to do anything. The beast has injured itself...and I'm not talking about the Great Democratic Oil War in Mesopotamia. That had nothing to do with terrorism. That was a Texas neo-colonial business promoted by neo-con jingoists that turned out to be a big fire ant colony. Fools. Anyone who'd lived in Iraq as I have would have told the Bushies they were going into a cesspool.
Saddam was clearly no saint. Iraq cannot be administered by saints. Up to July of 1990, he was America's boy. The 8 year war Saddam inflicted on Iran made Lebanon look like a spat. Hundreds of thousands died. The Marsh Arab culture died. The environmental consequences were horrendous. And Saddam's megalomania went over-the-top. And America supported Saddam in weapons (incl. of mass destruction), realtime satellite imagery, oil shipments (Iraqi tankers reflagged with the stars & stripes), and, undoubtedly, numerous other ways unknown to mere mortals. Then he got uppity and threatened the corrupt Kingdoms which America owns. April Glaspie...talk to us. Please, tell us what was really going on.
Closer to home, what really alarms this naive boy is the 36% of the US population which still thinks Bush is doing a good job. Many of them are so-called Christians who have been hoodwinked into thinking Bushco is a Christian organization. But what about the non-religious who continue to believe in Bush. How could they? With the election coming the Republicans want all the focus on the so-called phony War on Terrorism. The irony of the argument that Bushco has done a good job on the phony war is that if someone else had been President they might have done a much better job of it. They could hardly have done worse. The mistakes have been cataclysmic.
Bushco's soldiers claim that America has terror free for 5 years and that proves their prowess. What bull! America and Americans have suffered the after effects of 9/11 continuously. The terrorists didn't have to do anything. The beast has injured itself...and I'm not talking about the Great Democratic Oil War in Mesopotamia. That had nothing to do with terrorism. That was a Texas neo-colonial business promoted by neo-con jingoists that turned out to be a big fire ant colony. Fools. Anyone who'd lived in Iraq as I have would have told the Bushies they were going into a cesspool.
Saddam was clearly no saint. Iraq cannot be administered by saints. Up to July of 1990, he was America's boy. The 8 year war Saddam inflicted on Iran made Lebanon look like a spat. Hundreds of thousands died. The Marsh Arab culture died. The environmental consequences were horrendous. And Saddam's megalomania went over-the-top. And America supported Saddam in weapons (incl. of mass destruction), realtime satellite imagery, oil shipments (Iraqi tankers reflagged with the stars & stripes), and, undoubtedly, numerous other ways unknown to mere mortals. Then he got uppity and threatened the corrupt Kingdoms which America owns. April Glaspie...talk to us. Please, tell us what was really going on.
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