It is easy to think our "leaders" are just incompetent, but I still believe creating chaos in the Middle East is the plan. And things are going according to that plan. The chaos will keep us there long enough to get sucked into the next war and the next and the next.Months before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld forbade military strategists from developing plans for securing a post-war Iraq, the retiring commander of the Army Transportation Corps said Thursday.
In fact, said Brig. Gen. Mark Scheid, Rumsfeld said "he would fire the next person" who talked about the need for a post-war plan.
i agree.
"w" has recently stated that we wont be leaving iraq as long as hes in office.
this plays to the not changing horses in mid stream angle which worked well in '04. that notion would then be extended to the repubs in general as the only party capable of running the war on terror. thus extending (and owning) the old cold war model of domestic oppression.
Real men go to Beijing.
i read that article earlier this morning. its already afternoon, therefore id say its old news. tony snow, eat your heart out.
beijing was so pre 911. weve got a better bogeyman now. one that cant actually kick our ass.
Wait, we're not getting our ass kicked?
i probably wouldnt characterize it that way although if you consider it literally its probably apt. our soft muscled hind quarters have taken a blow while vital organs have gone generally unaffected. but, its true, we could use a good proctologist, or at least a brave hematologist, to stem the steady trickle of resources out our collective ass before were bled dry.
theyve managed to bankrupt america with the iraq war. is there any upside for that for their side? i cant see any other than driving down the masses. and it seems to me it plays in to the terrorists plan. drive the dopey giant into spending it self into egomaniacal oblivion.
"bleeding us dry" is better analogy than
kicking our ass". A concious effort was made during the Reagan years to drive up debt to force a cut to non-defense spending. I think that's a between domestic and foriegn policy.
"in a way, this is old news..."
and hes (nominally) on our side.
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- jim 9-09-2006 7:42 pm
i agree.
"w" has recently stated that we wont be leaving iraq as long as hes in office.
this plays to the not changing horses in mid stream angle which worked well in '04. that notion would then be extended to the repubs in general as the only party capable of running the war on terror. thus extending (and owning) the old cold war model of domestic oppression.
- bill 9-09-2006 7:49 pm
Real men go to Beijing.
- jim 9-09-2006 7:52 pm
i read that article earlier this morning. its already afternoon, therefore id say its old news. tony snow, eat your heart out.
beijing was so pre 911. weve got a better bogeyman now. one that cant actually kick our ass.
- dave 9-09-2006 8:15 pm
Wait, we're not getting our ass kicked?
- jim 9-09-2006 8:32 pm
i probably wouldnt characterize it that way although if you consider it literally its probably apt. our soft muscled hind quarters have taken a blow while vital organs have gone generally unaffected. but, its true, we could use a good proctologist, or at least a brave hematologist, to stem the steady trickle of resources out our collective ass before were bled dry.
- dave 9-09-2006 9:03 pm
theyve managed to bankrupt america with the iraq war. is there any upside for that for their side? i cant see any other than driving down the masses. and it seems to me it plays in to the terrorists plan. drive the dopey giant into spending it self into egomaniacal oblivion.
- bill 9-09-2006 9:35 pm
"bleeding us dry" is better analogy than
kicking our ass". A concious effort was made during the Reagan years to drive up debt to force a cut to non-defense spending. I think that's a between domestic and foriegn policy.
- mark 9-09-2006 11:19 pm
"in a way, this is old news..."
and hes (nominally) on our side.
- dave 9-09-2006 11:56 pm