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Let us for the moment consider what some of the Bush/Cheney rhetoric actually means:

We are embarked on a "noble cause." Cindy Sheehan has asked just what is this noble cause? Bush/Cheney have not given us an answer. Apparently the noble cause was/is to (1) destroy their non-existent weapons of mass destruction, (2) save us from their imaginary buddy (who actually hated them) Osama bin Laden, (3) remove a dictatorial murderous tyrant (who was an ally who apparently outlived his usefulness), (4) spread democracy (at the point of a gun) across the Middle East, (5) prove that we are a machismo country who will not just cut and run (as we did in Somalia), and (6) whatever else the Bush/Cheney loonies want to proclaim is/was the noble cause they have not yet shared with us.

We need to "stay the course." As no "noble cause" has been offered it is not at all clear what the "course" is. As near as I can tell the course has to do with just continuing what it is we have been doing - murdering as many patriotic Iraqis as possible who do not want us occupying their country, and killing innocent civilians, women and children in the process, to demonstrate what "shock and awe" really means to the rest of the world. Oh, and also to make it clear that "war crimes" do not apply to the United States (because, after all, might makes right, and we are the only superpower in the world). There is also the fact that unending "war" is good for business. Very good.

We are going to continue the fight until we have achieved "complete victory." What is it that would constitute a "victory" in Iraq, let alone a complete one? Perhaps we could get someone to sign a surrender document? As no one represents all of the resistance (turrists) would we need each one to sign individually? Would the victory be complete if we managed to kill every last Iraqi along with the foreign fighters who are involved? Would we need surrender terms from the Saudis? How about the Iranians? There probably can't be more than 40 to 50 million of them who want us out of Iraq. Would they all agree to surrender and give us our victory? Are we to believe as Bush/Cheney assure us that everything is going well in Iraq? That victory is imminent?

Finally, there is the claim that we are "fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here." That is, if they don't try to cross two enormous oceans and try to attack us here in our stronghold, we will continue to provide them with our finest sacrificial lambs they can kill there where it is so much easier for them. That ought to placate them and keep them from attacking us here at home where we are more defenseless. I'm sorry, but fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here is the most pathetic bunch of bullshit I have ever encountered in my life.

They are now already starting to roviate Murtha, suggesting that they should investigage his ethics and relationship to his brother's business. Can you believe these bastards have the nerve to even mention the word ethics?

Question of the day: do you believe American Corporations and businesses in general really care about abortion and gay rights?