Like the man who was stealing wheelbarrows...
... the whole debate about the war in Iraq is like looking through the straw in the wheelbarrow to try to figure out wottehell the guy was stealing...
The breast-beating and whining and crying and hair pulling and clothing rending about how evil Nancy Pelosi and her band of Amazons will cause us to lose the war if they set a date for blah blah and blah blah...
Here's the secret (clue, why 4 retired generals refused to take the job Bush offered them, to be Commander-in-chief of this war, actually)
THE WAS IS ALREADY LOST, HAS BEEN FOR AROUND 5 YEARS.
The act of invasion was where it was lost. Like WWI, when the German high command knew within 6 months they couldn't win it (didn't turn the corner through the lowlands fast enough), it's just a matter of dragging it out, hoping to blame it on someone else.
In other words, every American, Brit, or Iraqi killed since the taking of Baghdad was murdered for the egos and vanity of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. The war was lost then.
And anyone who ever read T.E. Lawrence's 7 Pillars of Wisdom in which he talks about how he pulled off creating Iraq for the oil, for the Crown, knew it then. (Wasn't there a general who said it would take 500,000 troops, maybe more, to pull it off? Around the same number Lawrence said it would take the Turks to hold on in the face of guerilla tactics. Or did we all just imagine that?)
Only a bunch of academic woosies and a C-in-C whose only military expereince was in a toy soldier version of the National Guard could have thought otherwise.
THE WAR HAS BEEN LOST
Now it's down to the Democrats -- and some actual Conservative Republicans (as distinct from the Religious fanatic Theocratic so-called Conservatives) -- to figure out how to get us out of there with minimal additional loss of life and infliction of pain and suffering.
And it seems to be up to the Bushwah Republicans to figure out how to keep the pain and killing going until they're out of the Oval Office because they believe history will be as dumb as they are and blame the loss of the war on the next administration.
IT'S OVER.
WE KNOW IT.
THE IRAQI'S KNOW IT.
AL QUAEDA KNOWS IT.
IT"S ONLY MONKEY BOY AND HIS PALS WHO DON'T SEEM TO KNOW IT.
AND THEY'RE SO ARROGANT, SO DETERMINED, SO BRAIN-DEAD FUCKING SELF-AGGRANDIZING STUPID, THEY'RE WILLING LET MANY MANY MORE PEOPLE DIE, BE MAIMED, AND LOSE EVERYTHING RATHER THAN HAVE TO ADMIT IT.
THIS ISN'T A REPEAT OF VIETNAM ---
This is LITTLE BIG HORN REVISITED
The breast-beating and whining and crying and hair pulling and clothing rending about how evil Nancy Pelosi and her band of Amazons will cause us to lose the war if they set a date for blah blah and blah blah...
Here's the secret (clue, why 4 retired generals refused to take the job Bush offered them, to be Commander-in-chief of this war, actually)
THE WAS IS ALREADY LOST, HAS BEEN FOR AROUND 5 YEARS.
The act of invasion was where it was lost. Like WWI, when the German high command knew within 6 months they couldn't win it (didn't turn the corner through the lowlands fast enough), it's just a matter of dragging it out, hoping to blame it on someone else.
In other words, every American, Brit, or Iraqi killed since the taking of Baghdad was murdered for the egos and vanity of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al. The war was lost then.
And anyone who ever read T.E. Lawrence's 7 Pillars of Wisdom in which he talks about how he pulled off creating Iraq for the oil, for the Crown, knew it then. (Wasn't there a general who said it would take 500,000 troops, maybe more, to pull it off? Around the same number Lawrence said it would take the Turks to hold on in the face of guerilla tactics. Or did we all just imagine that?)
Only a bunch of academic woosies and a C-in-C whose only military expereince was in a toy soldier version of the National Guard could have thought otherwise.
THE WAR HAS BEEN LOST
Now it's down to the Democrats -- and some actual Conservative Republicans (as distinct from the Religious fanatic Theocratic so-called Conservatives) -- to figure out how to get us out of there with minimal additional loss of life and infliction of pain and suffering.
And it seems to be up to the Bushwah Republicans to figure out how to keep the pain and killing going until they're out of the Oval Office because they believe history will be as dumb as they are and blame the loss of the war on the next administration.
IT'S OVER.
WE KNOW IT.
THE IRAQI'S KNOW IT.
AL QUAEDA KNOWS IT.
IT"S ONLY MONKEY BOY AND HIS PALS WHO DON'T SEEM TO KNOW IT.
AND THEY'RE SO ARROGANT, SO DETERMINED, SO BRAIN-DEAD FUCKING SELF-AGGRANDIZING STUPID, THEY'RE WILLING LET MANY MANY MORE PEOPLE DIE, BE MAIMED, AND LOSE EVERYTHING RATHER THAN HAVE TO ADMIT IT.
THIS ISN'T A REPEAT OF VIETNAM ---
This is LITTLE BIG HORN REVISITED
posted by Saintperle at
10:41 AM
