Tuesday, September 26, 2006
And the War Drags On
Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton:
"The President is not well served by his Secretary of Defense, a man history will not treat kindly. So what to do? Replace the Secretary of Defense with a proven leader who has a vision to get the country's defense establishment back on track. The army is in terrible shape, the marines are not much better. A Secretary who understands how to build alliances at home and abroad, who understands the operational art and understands the contemporary environment we live in."
President George W. Bush:
"Our nation is blessed to have young Americans like these -- and we will need them. Dangerous enemies have declared their intention to destroy our way of life. They're not the first to try, and their fate will be the same as those who tried before. Nine-Eleven showed us why. The attacks were meant to bring us to our knees, and they did, but not in the way the terrorists intended. Americans united in prayer, came to the aid of neighbors in need, and resolved that our enemies would not have the last word. The spirit of our people is the source of America's strength. And we go forward with trust in that spirit, confidence in our purpose, and faith in a loving God who made us to be free.
Thank you, and may God bless you."
So now there's a NIE being talked about where just about everybody with the slightest interest in reality agrees that placing a christian army in the middle east had to be about the stupidest fucking thing that could have possibly been done. I can just imagine Osama sitting around the war room with his terrorist underlings:
"But boss, even though Allah is great and righteous, if we attack the U.S. on September 11 . . . Allah save us from the most powerful military the world has ever seen."
"Oh, murderous grasshopper, indeed Allah is great and righteous, and Bush will only attack us for a few months before he will turn and smite Saddam Hussien."
"Um, boss, if we attack him, why would Bush turn around and start a war with Iraq for no reason? That would totally play into our hands in every possible way? ! ? That makes no sense."
"Once you understand the nature of a thing, you know what it is capable of."
I bounce back and forth between thinking that Bush and his crew are so fucking inept that they just fucked up left and right in Iraq and things just got worse by the day, by the month, by the year; or the notion that fucking up Iraq was the gameplan all along.
What do they care if Iraqi's live like dogs in slums with giant lakes of human waste? What do they care if various death squads are torturing star-bellied sneeches at an insane pace? George W. Fucking Bush don't care.
He got to fuck up our economy and go ape-shit with the deficeit spending (exactly what guys like Grover Norquist want)
He got to fork over billions in no-bid, guaranteed profit, contracts to his pals at Halliburton (exactly what Dick Cheney wanted)
He got to settle a personal score with Saddam (exactly what a spoiled prince would want)
He got to fuck up the oil flow in the middle east (exactly as our nation's long term planners have wanted since Carter. Anyone else remember that Dallas subplot where J.R. Ewing wanted to nuke Saudi Arabia to make his own texas tea more valuable?)
He don't even care what happens to our troops over there. Nope, those neo-cons are so looking forward into this 'new military.' Already we see the rise of 'security contractors', where tough motherfuckers from Navy Seals and other Special Forces just don't find themselves with too many marketable skills when they finally get out of the military in their thirties - rather than go work at Wal-Mart they get hired by a security contractor to do what they've been trained to do, just sans oversight, or a uniform code of conduct.
Fuck the army, what we're moving too is corporate forces. They'll have all the latest technology and intel - and it sure ain't none of our business where they go and what they're doing.
What's wrong with folks in this country? The Bush bullshit has gone from disturbing, to absurd, to laughable, into a maddening environment of fucking insanity. They are doing away with habeus corpus (but, only for the bad men, the evil men) for fucksake. The media plays out this retarded 'debate' about the issue, and it is just so insane. Either I am going insane or the world is or always has been.
I'm leaning toward the latter.
I read about Abramoff's connection to the White House today. American politics are a farce.
Also, I personally believe bungling Iraq was by design. The increasing tensions and outright warfare between rival sects has been part of the game plan. I personally anticipate seeing Iraq split up into seperate states, or "Balkanized" as the saying goes, with ares under Shiite control, Sunni control, and the remaining areas under the protection of the US military in the form of permanent bases. These bases will serve as a station of sorts for continual oil pillaging expeditions. We went in for oil due to its decline in production; As such, why control the whole country if you can just control the portions where oil lies?
That's just how I imagine it, anyway.
I reccomend the book "Crossing the Rubicon" by Mike Ruppert if you haven't read it yet. It has been very useful for me over the years, and some of its information was used by Kevin Phillips in "American Theocracy."
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