addabox
11-03-2004, 06:57 PM
OK, wingers, it's all yours.
You got your man Bush back, you have firm control of both houses of Congress, you have a compliant press, and Clinton is 4 long years out of office.
Perhaps we can agree that what happens next in Iraq is entirely yours. As in Bush/Republican/chickenhawk/fundee/"I don't care what anybody says, I know in my heart Saddam masterminded 9/11" yours.
Are you digin' it? Is freedom on the march?
Here's the thing: it's a clusterfuck, and I think you know it. It's getting harder and harder to find anyone in a position to know who thinks things are "getting better". Things are, by any objective criteria, getting much, much worse.
Larger and larger areas of the country are outside of US control. Sure, we can bomb the shit out of urban areas, but not really the fast track to winning hearts and minds, is it?
Elections? Real elections, according to the polls in Iraq, would install an anti-American Islamist regime.
And why would anybody think that open elections would put an end to the insurgency? Much less American controlled show elections.
So we're faced with very few options. We can "stay the course", subjecting American troops to a war of attrition with no apparent end, we can hold elections and get the hell out, leaving in our wake another western hating Mullah run state (and Osama says thanks a bunch), we can try to prop up a strong man that keeps the natives in line (not a very good track record with that , I'm afraid), or we could just stick our fingers in our ears and go "booga booga bogga! All is well!" (the Bush doctrine).
And somehow you supremely self-satisfied right wing douche bags still think you've won something.
After every "liberal" warning about the consequences of invading Iraq has come horribly true you still think reelecting Bush is a triumph of some sort.
So what's the plan? You do have a plan, don't you? Because sending Americans off to die for no fucking reason is such a buzz killer.
You got your man Bush back, you have firm control of both houses of Congress, you have a compliant press, and Clinton is 4 long years out of office.
Perhaps we can agree that what happens next in Iraq is entirely yours. As in Bush/Republican/chickenhawk/fundee/"I don't care what anybody says, I know in my heart Saddam masterminded 9/11" yours.
Are you digin' it? Is freedom on the march?
Here's the thing: it's a clusterfuck, and I think you know it. It's getting harder and harder to find anyone in a position to know who thinks things are "getting better". Things are, by any objective criteria, getting much, much worse.
Larger and larger areas of the country are outside of US control. Sure, we can bomb the shit out of urban areas, but not really the fast track to winning hearts and minds, is it?
Elections? Real elections, according to the polls in Iraq, would install an anti-American Islamist regime.
And why would anybody think that open elections would put an end to the insurgency? Much less American controlled show elections.
So we're faced with very few options. We can "stay the course", subjecting American troops to a war of attrition with no apparent end, we can hold elections and get the hell out, leaving in our wake another western hating Mullah run state (and Osama says thanks a bunch), we can try to prop up a strong man that keeps the natives in line (not a very good track record with that , I'm afraid), or we could just stick our fingers in our ears and go "booga booga bogga! All is well!" (the Bush doctrine).
And somehow you supremely self-satisfied right wing douche bags still think you've won something.
After every "liberal" warning about the consequences of invading Iraq has come horribly true you still think reelecting Bush is a triumph of some sort.
So what's the plan? You do have a plan, don't you? Because sending Americans off to die for no fucking reason is such a buzz killer.