And the price tag for this fucking fiasco in the making? Up to $27 billion. That’s right, $27 Carl Sagan units! Jesus fuck! Do you have any idea of what I could do with half that money?
First, and foremost, I’d buy me a tropical island and stock it with half nekkid wimmins. That’d eat up about half a billion, so I’d have $13 billion left. I’d take $3 billion of that, call up Burt Rutan and say, “Get me to the Moon.” I’d take half the remaining $10 billion and use it to start a safe, environmentally friendly, low-cost car company, take the rest and start building Bucky Fuller’s Dymaxion Dwelling Units to help solve housing shortages. Mind you, this is just the shit that I’m thinking of off the top of my head, gimmie a couple of hours, and I could come up with a metric assload of stuff to do with the money that would benefit most of mankind.
Instead, we’re going to take that money, and untold number of lives and flush them down the crapper. More and more, I want someone to yank Shrub out of office and club him like a baby harp seal.
Wait a minute - no, I’m not. Just profoundly depressed. Count me among the 58% of Americans who wish Bush’s Presidency were over today, rather than two years down the road.
I’m also afraid that the next few months will determine whether we have a system of checks and balances, responsive to the will of the people, or whether we have an elected dictatorship. The American people want to wind down this war, but it’s still unclear whether anything short of a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress will be able to prevent Bush from expanding it.
Bush may not be listening to anyone else in the car, but he’s still got the keys.
OK, since lying to the public and Congress, flouting the Constitution, spitting on the Geneva Convention, sending thousand of good soldiers to die with no fucking plan and being a self-righteous arrogant little prick aren’t enough, I’m officially taking up a collection fund* to send me to Washington D.C., where I will personally give the motherfucker a blowjob so we can get him out of office.
Not to nitpick, but the location of your astrick means that you’re not taking up a collection fund, but rather using your own money to implement the plan laid out. Taking one for the team, indeed.
Yup. It appears Bush lied. Again. Will Congress do anything about it. I doubt it. Will the American People do anything about it. I doubt it. More Americans will die needlessly in a war that has been a failure since Day One.
My point? It’s like a fire out in the the country on the county line. Two different volunteer fire companies arrive to put out the fire. But the two fire chiefs would rather argue about who got their first and which side of the county line the house sits, than just put out the damn fire.
So the two fire chiefs argue. The firefighters stand there and wait for orders. And the house burns to the ground.
My first though on hearing the original number of 21500 was that it only meant about 8 or 9 thousand combat troops and that wouldn’t make a big difference.
However, if GW means combat troops then this is just another case of the administration’s “bait and switch” operation. Just like the drug program that was sold on the basis of a certain cost but turned to to have an actual cost of double or triple the advertised number.
Forgive me, please, 'luci, for hanging back and letting you take that bullet. Closest I was able to come up with was “ass” - it, which doesn’t quite go.
So tell us, The King of Soup and WhyNot, what does it mean?
