Thursday, December 14, 2006

One hesitates to state the obvious …

But one must. At the risk of harping on the subject of elected stupidity, one must ask; what the hell W is doing?

Apparently, he is going around on a “listening tour” regarding Iraq. Can one possibly comment on this without stating the obvious? Isn’t he ... oh I don’t know… 3 freaking years too late? You see, Dear Leader, the time to ask about Iraq is before you have destroyed the country, lost 2,000 plus American lives, 30,000 – 300,000 Iraq lives (we keep much fuzzier numbers on Iraqies) and screwed the pooch.

His newly acquired “listening” skills apparently do not stretch to the Iraq Study Group. Because they are a bunch of bi-partisan, knowledgeable in foreign policy, skilled in Defense experts – so who the hell wants to listen to them.

No… as Bozo the President said in Vietnam (irony is lost on this man)… we will stay in Iraq until we finish the Mission.

By the way, just so you know, he can’t define “The Mission”, nor can his advisors, nor his press secretary. Although at least his Press Secretary was honest enough to state that even asking what “The Mission” was could now be considered tantamount to Treason. (Questioning the President (or voting for the Democrats) is, to quote the vice-President and Chief Shot-gun proponent, “Supporting Al-Quida”; which (read the Constitution – article 3 Section 3) is Treason and punishable by death.)

We have passed the theater of the absurd and moved right into scary ground. W is now talking about sending more troops.

Well now you all have to wake up. Because even if you aren’t old enough to remember, Scooter is. Vietnam escalated a little at a time until we lost 55,000 troops. And escalation, while sounding fine when it is a volunteer army, sucks when they start drafting. And soon that will be the only logical step one can take – once we commit to sending more troops and to some hazy, undefined Mission – well we can’t back down. So while we all can ignore the signposts, try to remember that Sean is just about the wrong age. Most of us lucked out with the draft and Vietnam, yeah for us. But don’t think that the Idiot-in-chief won’t put us in a position where Sean ends up getting drafted.

And that should scare us all into paying a slight amount of attention.