Just Drink the Kool-Aid (edited version)
Is anyone feeling a draft in here? I said in a post a while back that Iran would be next in line for the Bush war machine. There have been whispers of this for quite some time, and today there is this report on CNN (and elsewhere), which pretty much confirms it. Iraq was less about spreading freedom and democracy than it was about establishing a launching point for attacks against other enemy states in the Middle East (I'm looking at you too, Syria).The same neo-conservatives who told Bush that Iraqis would greet us with open arms are now telling him that, "a U.S. attack on Iran might provoke an uprising by Iranians against the hard-line religious leaders who run the government. " Yeah, right. We drop bombs all over Iran and the people will surely believe we are on their side. Jesus Christ. If the Bush administration really wanted to get rid of the hardline leaders in Iran, they would express their support for them publicly, because the people of the Middle East will desire the opposite of what Washington claims to desire, in any situation.
Bush said this past weekend that the election was an "accountability moment" when asked why no one has been held accountable for the numerous and huge fuckups in the Iraq war. Barely half of the electorate "re-elected" him (I use that term loosely, since he wasn't legitimately elected in his first term), and he thinks that means everybody thinks he's doing a great job with the war in Iraq. If you can't admit that you made a mistake, how can you possibly correct it?
We'll likely be seeing more help wanted ads like this one. I'm just thankful that I'm too old to get drafted under the current laws. Of course, they could always change the draft age when they reinstate it later this year. . .
posted by Skrambled Egghead Reborn @ 2:09 PM
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