The Iraqi scam continues

As I have been saying for months, Bush/Cheney have no intention of getting out of Iraq and, I am certain, never had any such intention. Neither, apparently, do any of the Democratic candidates with the exception of Kucinich. We have just been kept in the dark about this with little steps that keep it going. Remember the surge that was going to be for three months to give the Iraqis time to get their act together. Before it even began they were already saying September would be too soon to know, they should have longer, etc. The definitive opinion is supposed to come from General Petraeus in September at which point we were going to decide what to do. Now, before September is even upon us, Petraeus has announced that we will need to be in Iraq at least for another ten years. Bush keeps insisting that things are going well, progress is being made, victory is just around the corner, stay the course, and BS piled on more BS until exhaustion sets in and you just want to tune it all out. Now the lack of progress is being blamed on the Iraqis who, simple savages that they are, just cannot get their act together. They refuse, for example, to "share the oil." We are led to believe this has to do with sharing their oil resources equally between the three Iraqi factions: Kurds, Shiities and Sunnis. This is not, however, what Bush/Cheney have in mind when they speak of sharing the oil. They mean the Iraqis should share by far the greater share with the huge Oil Corporations. The one thing that tends to unite the Iraqis is their shared resistance to doing anything so blatantly foolish. You see, they are not just stupid savages after all, but, in fact, intelligent human beings who know when they are being robbed. There was an old Jack Benny (anyone remember him) show where a robber demanded, "you're money or your life." Benny, with his marvelous timing, paused, and then said, "I'm thinking it over." This fits the Iraqi situation: "You're oil or your lives," and they continue thinking it over, much to the chagrin of Bush/Cheney and their band of thieves.

Well, the totally meaningless Iowa straw poll is over. Surprise! Mitt Romney won after spending only several million dollars in a fake contest in which the frontrunners didn't even participate. I guess this is supposed to give him momentum. Brownback and Huckabee came in after Romney. Why that should excite anyone I do not know. Tancredo, who wants to bomb Mecca, was fourth with Ron Paul fifth. Can you imagine anyone in Iowa voting for Ron Paul? The best thing one might say about this exercise in futility is that Thompson may have been cast aside along with Tancredo.

Hillary the Warlike has slowly increased her lead over the rest of the pack. A poll today showed her with 48%, far more than either Obama or Edwards. I suspect that if Gore does not enter in the next month or two it's all over. Hillary will be the Democratic candidate. Don't expect her to pick Kucinich for her running mate. The Republicans keep clinging to their belief that Hillary will be easy to beat (or at least the easiest to beat). Given the position of the Republican Party at the moment this may prove to be a complete delusion. Look for Dodd as a good possibility.

The only thing that will stop the Iraqi scam from continuing, and possibly being exported to Iran, is impeachment. Alas! This demands action from the actionless and useless who seem to be themselves part of the scam. Unfortunately, inaction is an action, and not the one we need at the moment.

LKBIQ:
"For he who sins a second time, wakes a dead soul to pain..."
Oscar Wilde