In Bob Woodward's new book about the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice hastens to remind us just how blind and stupid they have been, no doubt to make sure that no one in his or her right mind could possibly pull that "Republican" lever in the voting booth this November or ever again. The precise quote is, "There are a lot of things if I could go back and do them differently, I would. But the one I would not do differently is, we should have liberated Iraq. I'd do it a thousand times again. I'd do it a thousand times again."
Condi! You have not liberated Iraq! You have destroyed Iraq and murdered hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children! You have nurtured a civil war for your own purposes and you have done so both cynically and incompetently!
A thousand times. Well, that's 4.1 million American deaths that Condi thinks would be worth it to pursue her policies in Iraq. That's 4 quadrillion dollars she would spend all over again to get rid of one of many dictators around the world (and one that we nurtured for years). That's ten million dead Iraqis (conservatively) and 4.7 billion Iraqis displaced and homeless. That's $4,000 per gallon gas! That's five thousand years of war! Cheap at the price, Condi would say in order not to repent her sins, but what have we gotten for it?
A Recession!
A broken military!
A President universally scorned!
An ongoing culture war!
A Constitution shredded!
Thanks, Condi, your conscience is clear.
A broken military! The military is not broken! As a vet, I'll tell you that you should thank God that we have a military that is so experienced. Our combat troops are 100% blooded, for all intents and purposes. What is broken is the Congressional appropriations process, which depends on the anti-military side of the Congress for movement, while the Republicans shout to the heavens about the time wasted!
A President universally scorned! Where does it say that our President must be universally loved? I, for one, am happy that the rest of the world looks at us warily, rather than taking us for granted as was done for several decades. Respect does not necessarily mean love!
An ongoing culture war! Sorry, this has been going on since before I joined the Marine Corps in 1970. This is nothing new, merely bigger!
A Constitution shredded! Can you name a single iota of the Constitution that has been overturned or abused? In spite of the screams from the Left, I haven't seen it at all!
Semper fi
Berettasskeeter means every word of this idiocy.
As to not having seen any portion of the Constitution abused, he is either blind or ignorant. Sadly, not many marines know the contents of the Constitution they were sworn to uphold. Likewise a certain President.
"The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry...I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 millions have not...Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states...The error that progressives have consistently committed over the years is to underestimate the vitality of ignorance in America...The history of the last four years shows that red state types, above all, do not want to be told what to do - they prefer to be ignorant. As a result, they are virtually unteachable...Listen to what the red state citizens say about themselves, the songs they write, and the sermons they flock to. They know who they are - they are full of original sin and they have a taste for violence."
Check this out:
According to Jo Fish, a blogger at Firedoglake, Palin instituted a policy when she was the mayor of Wasilla that charges rape victims anywhere from $300 to $1200 for the rape kits that are routinely used to collect evidence. The story was first reported in the Frontiersman in May 2000. Here's the link.
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2000/05/23/news.txt
Quite a gal, huh?
Would you please take the job if you get the call? Many who have been taking up the Dem side have been sorely lacking in cutting off their spin, and taking the truth back at 'em... We need you bad.
"If McCain is president, China will invade us, call their loans due, and have us all working in their labor camps."
Now why don't Democrats run fear blurbs like that? More probable than anything coming out of Sarah Palin's mouth.
As Governor, Palin also supported Senator Ted Stevens's pork barrel project to build "the bridge to nowhere" and didn't announce her opposition to it until after the feds funded it. Then she denounced the project stating that the good people of the State of Alaska would build the bridge if, and when, it became necessary. Good press for which she claimed credit as a cost-cutting maverick unafraid of confronting powerful entrenched politicians, since Senator Stevens has been indicted by a federal grand jury. She would deserve accolades but for one inconvenient fact. She kept the money.
This woman is way smarter and more ruthless than Bush or McCain and no one should underestimate the threat that she will be to our Republic, if McCain is our next President and he fails to survive his term in office.
Thanks for the post, which reaches to a related issue that has bothered me. For a long time, Saddam's "mass graves" were a neocon talking point. There were periodic accounts in the press of discovery of mass graves, but I am not aware of systematic reporting describing the full numbers and origins of these bodies. There has been adequate time for an accounting on this question, and perhaps you or others have the specifics that have escaped my notice. (I am excluding here casualties from the Iraq-Iran war.) Given my skepticism of this "mass graves" talk, I have been inclined to assume that our war has been responsible for more Iraqi casualties (civilian or otherwise) than Saddam's regime. Is this a true statement? I note in passing that Saddam was hanged for the casualties that he inflicted on the Iraqi people.
Put down the pens and pick up the guns before it is too late.