Reality finally sinking in - Iraq expectations lowered

Hutu?

Can somebody please explain to me why these fuckers are not in jail? Please? What, I can make meth in my basement and go to jail for ten years, but if I lie out my fucking ass for a year to start a war, completely invade and dismantle a sovereign nation under those false pretenses, kill tens of thousands of innocent people, waste the lives of our soldiers, squander our goodwill after 9/11 so now we’re more hated than ever before, and royally fuck up just about every possible strategic decision that could be royally fucked up, in a span of months racking up a Vietnamesque list of blunders, and…and…I get reelected?

Re-FUCKING-elected?

What the fuck happened to this country? What? Why do I feel like I’ve been teleported to bizarro-world? What in the holy fuck happened? Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a Flaming Pogostick, my fellow Americans, why did you let this happen?

I agree; I am worried about this also. I have been worried about the Turks in this regard for years.

Wasn’t Nixon re-elected four years after promising to end the war in Vietnam?

Oh yeah. Thanks for reminding me. We’re stupid, and we stay stupid. Gawd, for a moment there I actually had this funny illusion that a society ought to really learn from its mistakes. Crazy, huh?

You must admit though, it’s fascinating to be alive during the time America jumped the shark.

“The truth is far more powerful than any weapon of mass destruction.”

  • Mohandas K. Gandhi

Amazing the lack of response from our Usual Suspects.

They just busy awaiting instructions?

-Joe

Too busy digging for dirt on Cindy Sheehan, I’d wager.

Yeah, I was hoping to see some of their responses, but I guess that ain’t going to happen.

Even Republicans seem to be resigning themselves to this, from a surprising source:

TOM DELAY: “I cannot support a failed foreign policy. History teaches us that it is often easier to make war than peace. This administration is just learning that lesson right now. The President began this mission with very vague objectives and lots of unanswered questions. A month later, these questions are still unanswered. There are no clarified rules of engagement. There is no timetable. There is no legitimate definition of victory. There is no contingency plan for mission creep. There is no clear funding program. There is no agenda to bolster our over-extended military. There is no explanation defining what vital national interests are at stake. There was no strategic plan for war when the President started this thing, and there still is no plan today”

Oh, wait. That was him talking about Bosnia. A war in which an ongoing genocide was stopped without a single American casualty, and the post-war was far far better managed.

Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Wul…wul…Clinton got his dick sucked an lied about it! WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA!

No, no, no. Mustn’t draw parallels with Vietnam. That is strictly, strictly verboten. Not allowed. And completely untrue.

When right wing history records that the Iraq mess was lost because of weak kneed pansies making the US military fight with one hand tied behind its back, that also will not, under any circumstances give rise to any entitlement to mention the V word.

Wow, I’m speechless.

Vagina?

You sex-obsessed Democrats disgust me.

Fuckin libruls.

-Joe

Yeah: real princes of consistency, no?

Not telling us how much it will cost??!!! An outrage!

How dare he demand an exit strategy?! Does he hate the troops and or America and want to encourge the ethnic cleansers??!

Ha!

You had me there, for a second.

But what if God chose you to make meth in your basement for Freedom ™ and Liberty ™?

[singing]
God Bless my Meth Lab
Dope that I love
[/singing]

IOKIYAAR.

It’s not just an acronym, it’s a way of life.

The really fun thing is you get to have a whole bevy of dupes who will mentally contort themselves all day long at your whim. And you get to screw them over and over…and they’ll thank you for it. Because, no matter what you do, at least you’re not one of them.

-Joe, one of them

Chuck Hagel’s one of them too:

In U.S. heartland, anxiety over Iraq, oil