A little rant--Iraq Escalation dreaming

[vixengrl]

Bush has a plan--damnation be upon him--if the BBC has it right:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2672200



He thought he had a plan a year ago--didn't, http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html

must've been just trying one on for size. Now he's got commissions and study groups galore--HEY, BUSH--you allegedly educated, supposedly connected, somewhat caught reading a damn book at least once in your life lazy ass vacation-happy Oedipally-conflicted and whatEVER ELSE your critics ever burdened your poor sorry ego with--here you are: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2672200

Can't you figure out this is for Grown-ups and is complicated, you sorry-witted panderer? It isn't for people who have any desire to make themselves liked, important, relevant--screw this up, and you are lower than whale feces. If you take your extra 30-40 thousand and go for the Sunni terrorist insurgent folks who call themselves Al-Quada and damn well know what that means to you--you're gonna agitate Sunnis worldwide and they're the Muslim majority (and some of 'em are your bosom buds in Saudi Arabia--and some others are the AL-Quada you haven't freaking caught in Pakistan, Afghanistan--ah--Mullah Omar, uh, some dude called Osama--just saying). If you go after Al-Sadr and his upstarts you've been neglecting/supporting with neglect (ahem see Saddam hanging--er--Google Facilities Protection Services)--well, we all knew you wanted Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, so you didn't surprise us with your genius there, either. If you smite both houses equally--we will be there for--checking watch--EVER! If the average American had a map and a newspaper subscription handy, or at least some familiarity with the old series of tubes we call the Internets (yeah, you know, the guy who beat you for this fricking office you're squatting in supported it with legislation before supermarket scanners were a friggin' mote in your daddy's incurious silver spoon eye!), they'd know that you should---have--a--plan--in--the everloving Middle East since everything is everloving connected. Bush needed flashcards to get through his first few months in office--and still occasionally cribs, naps, and looks for potty breaks, so to escape the grown people talking which means legitimate foreign policy is taking place. Cheney whispers some bollocks in your ear from his twisted oxygen-deprived FOX-news watching skull--and suddenly--

We will surge. Or maybe escalate--for the Bush-Cheney legacy--which will be bequeathed on who-knows who--who will have to do who knows what to get an end of it. This is dumb--politically, humanitarian-wise--it's not militarily sensible. It's not *right*. And I avoided using profanity--and I erm...ranted, please forgive any excesses due to my--aw heck--sanity...

I'm just saying--shouldn't they actually know who they are fighting and why before more soldiers are committed?

The policy isn't military,it isn't political--not if any lesson at all was derived from the midterms, it's as old Senator Dodd said (you know, my father, who spent a lovely couple of years on Okinawa courtesy of the US gov't, reminded me not so long ago of a special little ditty that went, "I believe in God and Senator Dodd-" I pointed out this is the heir not the um...original offending article. The guy who's only on the Banking Committee--just grand he's, er, with us) said--this is a tactic in search of a strategy--well--strategery is supposed to be what this White House does--oh--damn.

"Strategery"--is a made-up Saturday Night Live word for Karl Rove planning stuff. Seriously. And like Colbert's "truthiness"--this word should be examined for its' real effect on what we think or see. Our Iraq "strategy" is damn well "strategery"--From the Colin Powell "diorama of Doom" at the UN to the plastic Turkey, to the Surge--it's all staging--and all suspect. Except for the dying and wounded--those are real. That is a serious problem I have with this war. That and the lack of legitimate justification--and the, uh, lack of long term planning, foresight, popular support--yeah--more issues than National Goddamn Geographic. You could say.

[mike_c]

1. "...Oedipally-conflicted...."

:rofl:

K&R, wonderful post, but thank you especially for that description.

[vixengrl]

2. I know--having seen Barbara Bush one might be dubious--

having witnessed the sharp side of her tongue, one might be less so--GWB is his Momma's son--but I can not--for the sake of decency, elaborate on any Oedipal vision I may have--his Daddy's eyes and Mamma's tongue is as far as I dare go.

[vixengrl]

3. One poem of mine apropos:

For anyone mortal--

Brazen Serpent

Turning,

Turning in all your coils

Feel God is fire

And know

The way up is the way down.

To deny motion is death.


These things happen

To the best of us.


And it is a hard thing

To drown by this anchor,

To be cast aside

By these deaf stones,

To take on the weight

Of so much dust.


And you were always

The best of us.


Turning,

Bitterness fills your mouth,

But here is sweetness.

There is no way that is not,

You would understand.

It shall be

As written


But it will be hard

For the rest of us.



And you will not be broken,

Not you, the stronger vessel,

Not broken though pierced

Again by the raven

Again by the thorns

Again by the mistletoe

And shot with light.


And darkness fell

Across the best of us.


When it is finished,

Dying is finished,

But motion is eternal

And cannot be denied.


I have remembered you of old

And my heel

Still stings.


Return to your Mother.

[vixengrl]

4. Eh, morning self-kick

:hi: