I'm so BLEEPing angry.

[Plaid Adder]

I should know better than to go into Latest Breaking News these days.

I just saw some of the pictures from the latest Baghdad hotel bombing. By the time I was reading the quotes from administration officials on the subject I felt my blood pressure rising and I finally decided my constitution isn't strong enough to take it right now.

Can I do this post without profanity? I do not think I can.

How long do we have to listen to these assholes pretending that "democracy is taking root in Iraq"? Democracy is not taking root in Iraq. Anarchy is taking root in Iraq. So is Al-Qaeda. So is resentment and hatred of America. Bush's foreign policy has planted many, many seeds in Iraq and NONE OF THEM ARE GOOD.

I am just fed up with it. It is unfair that people as utterly incompetent and corrupt as Team Bush is should ever have gotten their hands on the reins of power in the first place. If you are going to be the empire crushing the world in your iron grip, the LEAST you could do is control things well enough so that you can protect the people who truckle to you. It's the first rule of running a racket: you look out for the people who are loyal to you and you punish anyone who resists you. Instead, they have engineered a situation where anyone who cooperates with them is marked for destruction while the people who are attacking them and their local collaborators are apparently operating with impunity. And then they get on the air and say oh, don't worry, everything's fine, they love us really, we'll be out of here by June 30th.

What a load of CRAP! It's St. friggin' Patrick's day, people. Let's take a look at the history of Ireland, shall we?

August, 1969. After fierce and brutal fighting between Catholic and Protestant enclaves in Northern Ireland, the British Army is dispatched to try to get the situation under control. Initially, the Catholic population is reported to be welcoming the soldiers because they see the British army as actually *fairer* and *less* beholden to the Protestants than the local police, and hope that the army will protect them from their own neighbors. And, for a little while, the army cooperates with the local defense brigades and the situation gets stabilized and life seems to be going back to normal.

Then, it becomes clear that a) the army is going to do things the army's way and has no intention of allowing the local organizations to run anything and b) they're not leaving any time soon. And then things get ugly, and they do nothing but get uglier for many years.

It's 2004. There have been several cease-fires, the level of violence has dropped, despite frequent setbacks things seem to be approaching some kind of resolution most of the time...and the British army is STILL THERE.

Tell me again how we plan to get our troops out of Iraq by next November?

That bastard in the White House has implicated America, Iraq, all our allies, and any civilian who may someday be shot by nervous American soliders blown up by Al-Qaeda for being in the wrong place at the wrong time in a war that is going to last for years and which they have no idea in their heads about how to win. They have fucked us all right into the middle of the biggest bloody mess that has been made since Vietnam and now they are cashing in while everyone else bleeds.

I don't have a point here. I'm just PISSED OFF at the huge bloody injustice of it all. If you're going to TAUNT an adversary the way they've been taunting the entire Muslim world, then you should at least know how to BEAT them. Instead, they waved the red flag in front of the bull and then helicoptered the hell out of the arena to leave everyone else to be gored.

@#$!!!!!!

:argh: :grr:

The Plaid Adder

[Mairead]

1. Please be fair and exact: it's *chaos*, not 'anarchy'.

Don't help the oppressors give anarchists an undeserved bad name.

[redwitch]

2. I am reminded of the Rummy quote:

"freedom is untidy" Damn thing pops into my head every time some other poor bastard gets blown up. I'm pissed too.

[AspenRose]

3. Preach it!

Counting the days until my cousin finally gets the hell out of Iraq (14 days).

Unfortunately others won't be as lucky

[Ilsa]

4. I wish there was something I could say to ease your pain.

Our pain. Their pain.

But I can't think of anything except that we have to have a change in leadership in this country. Maybe that is the biggest second step.

I think the first step would have to be for all of *'s supporters to open their freaking eyes to what these bastards are doing to this wonderful country (and that wonderful country).

[mhr]

5. At This Point I Have Severe * Fatigue. I Am Very, Very Tired Of This Man!

eom

[Melodybe]

6. Write some letters to the media whores, register someone to vote,

and talk to as many people as possible about this evil administration.

That is what I do and the more I work the better I feel about Nov.

Take care

[Mandate My Ass]

7. Yup, they're pissing on the entire world

and telling us it's liquid sunshine.

I can't wait until Saturday.

[Ekova]

8. I have to agree with you.

We are seeing the absolute worst from people on both sides of the equation. (And, I suppose, the best from both sides like the 10 million protesters and Riverbend...). Either way, these people are leading the world down the darkest of dark paths and I don't think they realise that they're doing it for no other reason than their addiction to their own selfish causes.

I'm tired of innocents dying for a twisted ideology. I'm tired of being called a left wing fuck because I think this is unfair. I'm really, really tired of being lied to on a daily basis by most of the major media outlets. Most of all, I'm tired of being looked at with contempt by people that I wouldn't trust to run a local Avondale, let alone the world's most powerful nation. They are only interested in manipulating the public's perception of reality to fit an unethical agenda.

How much further backwards to we have to step before we become concerned for our humanity?

[Oilwellian]

9. You know it's getting bad when....

you see on CNN a split-screen of Cheney giving a speech on how rosy things are in Iraq and at the same time, pictures of the latest bombing there.

[LunaC]

10. The Iraqi Folly

The Russians tried for years to get a foothold in Afghanistan and the "Insurgents" - with tactical advice and weaponry provided by the 'Mericans - let it be known that Outsiders were not welcome. Russia finally gave up, took its toys and went home.

Why in the hell the 'Mericans thought they could bomb and bluster their way into the Mideast and achieve a positive outcome is beyond me. The "Insurgents" have been trained and armed well and like unruly teenagers they're throwing it all right back in our face. Their ranks of hatred against the U.S. grow daily and the bombings will NEVER stop! It worked for them before, it will work for them again. Eventually the U.S. will realize that it just ain't financially cost effective and we'll depart with our tail between our legs. Meanwhile the human toll of suffering and death will only grow.

It's been said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result. Clearly the Smirk Administration is populated by Madmen!

[ewagner]

11. No truer words......

It's been said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different result.

I have been harping on the fact that these a-holes have no sense of history WHATSOEVER!

They don't understand that this isn't new. They don't understand the culture of the region.

IDIOTS!!!!!!!

[Insider]

12. they are not dumb

they are fat and happy, sending other people's sons and daughters to secure their energy fortunes. this all seems rational to me, evil, but rational. this admin has shifted billions (trillions?) of dollars from our treasury to oil and defense contractors, their friends.

in that light, it all makes perfect sense. they sleep well.