A deal?

Does the Bush/Cheney administration have a deal with the terrorists? A deal such that we promise to keep providing some of our finest young prople as sacrificial lambs to be murdered there, provided the terrorists, in turn, promise not to attack us here in our (presumably helpless and unprotected homeland)? Bush/Cheney have been saying repeatedly that "we are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here." Why fighting them there prevents them from attacking us here is not at all clear. In fact, it is utter nonsense, unless, there actually is such a deal. I don't, of course, believe there is such a deal but bring this up merely to illustrate how ridiculous a claim this really is. Actually, we are fighting them there because...because they were a threat to us and their neighbors? No, not that. Well, maybe because they had weapons of mass destruction? No, not that. Well, maybe because they might have wanted to have weapons of mass destruction some time in the future? Yeah, that's it. Oh, and yeah, they have a lot of oil that we would like to control. Besides, Sadam was a bad guy. He used to be a good guy when we provided him with chemical weapons but later he became a bad guy. When he agreed to let the weapons inspectors into his country with no restrictions on where they could inspect that was the last straw. We might have found out the Bush/Cheney administration had been lying to us the whole time and that just wouldn't do. But I forget, we had to spread democracy throughout the Middle East. That would be good, wouldn't it? Apparently the best way to spread democracy there would be to destroy it here at home. That's a good plan and it was working until that evil Congressman Murtha said we should call it off.

But you notice that even Murtha doesn't suggest that we should not retain a presence in the area. He suggests a rapid strike force, maybe based in Kuwait or at least nearby. There is just no telling what those crazy Iraqis may do with their oil if we are not there to insure they do the right thing (sell it to us at a nominal cost and in dollars rather than euros). This also doesn't say what we are to do with the billions of dollars we have spent on permanent facilities in Iraq. But, then, as Dirksen once said, "a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money." It's not as if the 200 billion plus we have already spent there hasn't produced some marvelous results. A mere 8 billion just disappeared into thin air, the Iraqis still don't have decent water or electricity, and we are assured by Bush/Cheney that everything is going well.

It appears that the American people may be reaching the point where they are simply not going to put up with this any longer. The Bush/Cheney gang is starting to implode and there are at last signs of hope. But do not be surprised if some truly strange things happen soon. We might find that Lichenstein is becoming very agressive and trying to develop a bomb with the help of Luxembourg and Monaco. There may even develop fears that we are about to be invaded by creatures from outer space. This would be all the more reason for following Florida and making it legal for everyone to carry a gun. Indeed, make it mandatory that everyone must own a gun, I suggest a 50 calibre machine gun. Those are really cool. Hard to conceal, perhaps, but everyone could have one mounted on their car and one on their front porch. That should keep those terrorists at bay. But maybe they wouldn't work on creatures from outer space? This is all too confusing.