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I should know better than to go into Latest Breaking News these days.
I just saw some of the pictures from the latest Baghdad hotel bombing. By the time I was reading the quotes from administration officials on the subject I felt my blood pressure rising and I finally decided my constitution isn't strong enough to take it right now.
Can I do this post without profanity? I do not think I can.
How long do we have to listen to these assholes pretending that "democracy is taking root in Iraq"? Democracy is not taking root in Iraq. Anarchy is taking root in Iraq. So is Al-Qaeda. So is resentment and hatred of America. Bush's foreign policy has planted many, many seeds in Iraq and NONE OF THEM ARE GOOD.
I am just fed up with it. It is unfair that people as utterly incompetent and corrupt as Team Bush is should ever have gotten their hands on the reins of power in the first place. If you are going to be the empire crushing the world in your iron grip, the LEAST you could do is control things well enough so that you can protect the people who truckle to you. It's the first rule of running a racket: you look out for the people who are loyal to you and you punish anyone who resists you. Instead, they have engineered a situation where anyone who cooperates with them is marked for destruction while the people who are attacking them and their local collaborators are apparently operating with impunity. And then they get on the air and say oh, don't worry, everything's fine, they love us really, we'll be out of here by June 30th.
What a load of CRAP! It's St. friggin' Patrick's day, people. Let's take a look at the history of Ireland, shall we?
August, 1969. After fierce and brutal fighting between Catholic and Protestant enclaves in Northern Ireland, the British Army is dispatched to try to get the situation under control. Initially, the Catholic population is reported to be welcoming the soldiers because they see the British army as actually *fairer* and *less* beholden to the Protestants than the local police, and hope that the army will protect them from their own neighbors. And, for a little while, the army cooperates with the local defense brigades and the situation gets stabilized and life seems to be going back to normal.
Then, it becomes clear that a) the army is going to do things the army's way and has no intention of allowing the local organizations to run anything and b) they're not leaving any time soon. And then things get ugly, and they do nothing but get uglier for many years.
It's 2004. There have been several cease-fires, the level of violence has dropped, despite frequent setbacks things seem to be approaching some kind of resolution most of the time...and the British army is STILL THERE.
Tell me again how we plan to get our troops out of Iraq by next November?
That bastard in the White House has implicated America, Iraq, all our allies, and any civilian who may someday be shot by nervous American soliders blown up by Al-Qaeda for being in the wrong place at the wrong time in a war that is going to last for years and which they have no idea in their heads about how to win. They have fucked us all right into the middle of the biggest bloody mess that has been made since Vietnam and now they are cashing in while everyone else bleeds.
I don't have a point here. I'm just PISSED OFF at the huge bloody injustice of it all. If you're going to TAUNT an adversary the way they've been taunting the entire Muslim world, then you should at least know how to BEAT them. Instead, they waved the red flag in front of the bull and then helicoptered the hell out of the arena to leave everyone else to be gored.
@#$!!!!!!
:argh: :grr:
The Plaid Adder
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