Deja vu

Yes, yes, I’m afraid it’s true. Déjà vu all over again. General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker put on their performance for Congress today. They could have just replayed last year’s performance. Yes, some progress is being made, but it is very slow and not uniform. Yes, al-Quaida is a big threat, but not as big as it was. We need to take a pause for 45 days and then assess just where we are before we can say anything about withdrawing troops. Some political progress is being made but it is still not satisfactory. Iran continues to meddle in our meddling. No, we don’t have any idea when we can withdraw our troops from Iraq, it depends upon things on the ground. No, we don’t know how to define success. We should just stay the course and figure it out later. No, the agreement we are seeking with Iraq to maintain troops there for an indeterminate time does not need the approval of Congress. We’re not seeking permanent bases in Iraq, just an enduring presence. Let’s just leave it all up to General Petraeus (and to hell with anyone else who has a different opinion, they are all expendable). No, we can’t just pull our troops out precipitously, that might cause chaos (instead of the order we have now in Iraq). There might even be a civil war (as opposed to what is happening now). I know they’re sending mortar rounds and stuff into the Green Zone, but it must be the Iranians because we know the Iraqis really want us to stay and occupy their country.

In other words, nothing much has changed in the past year, we still don’t know what the hell we’re doing, so we’ll just stall for more time (and lots more money and deaths). Besides, McCain still hasn’t figured out the difference between Shia and Sunni, maybe if he has more time. At a pro-war rally today (can you believe it, a pro-war rally) a McCain supporter said “you’ve got Tiger Woods but we’ve got John McCain.” I still can’t figure out what the hell that is supposed to mean. But if that’s the choice, give me Tiger Woods every time. Was the guy equating Obama with Tiger Woods because they’re both part black? Was it meant to be a racial slur? Was it just his mouth working without engaging his brain? Whatever it was, McCain liked it enough to give the guy a hug. Weird goings on. How could anyone attend a pro-war rally? Why not a death and destruction rally? A let’s kill a lot of women and children rally? How about an, I’m a warmongering ghoul rally? A pro-war rally has to be the sickest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard about). It won’t be long before they stage their pro-torture rally, or their let’s poke their eyes out rally, or maybe their let’s blow off some arms and legs rally. Where do these kinds of slavering sadists come from?

You don’t think this gambit to delay any further decisions about what to do in Iraq has anything to do with Bush’s obvious desire to pass the problem on to the next President, do you? You don’t think his desire to cut a deal with Iraq to let us maintain an ongoing troop presence there is designed to commit the next President to this unpopular “war,” do you? You don’t think all that oil in Iraq has anything to do with it, do you?

Interesting that Bill Clinton is involved in some way with the proposed Columbia trade deal and/or is all for it, whereas Hillary is opposed to it. You know, the one that her main advisor, Penn, was trying to get as a client so he could promote it, even though Hillary was against it. He was supposedly fired, but wasn’t, and is still active as an advisor to her. You don’t think Hillary is devious, do you? I wonder how many other things Bill and Hillary disagree about. Can’t you just imagine them in the White House again, bickering constantly about money and policy. A big potential for domestic violence and abuse there. I suggest that if Hillary should miraculously end up in the White House as our President, she should have to have Bill put into a blind trust so he has nothing whatsoever to do with anything.

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“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
Jeannette Rankin