We will finally defeat the Blackhawk Down syndrome.

Invading Somalia on the eve of a presidential address.
Curious timing.
The Decider has decided.
Immediately after the first Bush invasion of Iraq, GHWBush said: "we have finally defeated the Vietnam Syndrome".
Then we experienced Blackhawk Down in Somalia.
Will Dubya finally be able to say "we have finally defeated the Blackhawk Down Syndrome"?
It must have stuck in his craw all these years.

The reputation of the Bush dynasty is at stake.
We will win even if we have to kill a million 'collateral damages'.
They're only brown people with inferior religions sitting on our oil.
We'll Nuke 'em back to the stone age like the right wing press says.
(I hope you recognize irony there.)

Monday, (my blogger was down):
The official leak has been made. The public has been sufficiently acclimated to the news and is now in place to listen to the bastard's unplan without blowing their tops.
A surge of a billion tax dollar in aid for a works program for Iraq.
Surging right out of our middle-class losing-jobs losing-pensions losing-medical-care pockets.
The evening that Shock and Awe was launched, we went out to dinner... giving ourselves no chance of being near a video screen. I did not believe in the carnage of the rockets red glare as a spectator sport. We stood on the corner of Franklin and Davison, Flint, Michigan, in front of Angelo's Coney Island and saw, looking in all four directions, the destruction caused by years of globalization and ruling class manipulation.
Potholes, plywooded windows, dark empty streets, abandoned homes, abandoned vehicles, abandoned businesses, dying churches, closing schools, closing shops. The sense of danger, the knowlege that unseen bad people could do a drive by, or jump us in the park or on the street, that people die by violence in that hood so plagued by gang graffiti, and neglected rental property, and poverty.
If we needed to bring a 'freedom agenda' and a billion dollar jobs program and hope to somewhere, why not to Flint, Michigan?
Because we have no oil under our homes?
Because we aren't close to Israel so we have no strategic importance?
Because we are only average Americans in trouble?
Kinda recalls my mind to Hurricane Katrina as well.
Where is the loyal opposition?

A NOTE to those who have been media-farmed to think the first battle of Mogadishu was all the fault of the right side of the coin's favorite whipping boy Clinton...
Wars don't just happen. They are planned many moves in advance just like chess. DUH!

The Bush Administration covertly started setting up Somalia for a regime change and nation building (actions which, during the 2000 presidential campaign, Dubya deplored. However once he was selected in the Supreme Court coup of 2000, spreading a Freedom Agenda became his mantra too. Funny how all that power and influence change a guy.)
Such meglomaniacs, such meddlers, such blood soaked hypocrites.

I copy and paste from Wikipedia:
In September 1991 severe fighting broke out in Mogadishu, which continued in the following months and spread throughout the country, with over 20,000 people killed or injured by the end of the year. These wars led to the destruction of the economy of Somalia which in turn led to starvation in large parts of Somalia. The international community began to send food supplies to halt the starvation, but vast amounts of food were hijacked and brought to local clan leaders, who routinely exchanged it with other countries for weapons. An estimated 80 percent of the food was stolen. These factors led to even more starvation, from which an estimated 300,000 people died, and another 1.5 million people suffered, between 1991 and 1992. In July 1992, after a ceasefire between the opposing clan factions, the United Nations sent 50 military observers to watch the distribution of the food.
Operation Provide Relief began in August 1992, when the George H. W. Bush White House announced that U.S. military transports would support the multinational UN relief effort in Somalia. Ten C-130s and 400 people were deployed to Mombasa, Kenya during Operation Provide Relief, airlifting aid to remote areas in Somalia and reducing reliance on truck convoys. [...] When this proved inadequate to stop the massive death and displacement of the Somali people (500,000 dead and 1.5 million refugees or displaced), the U.S., in December 1992, launched a major coalition operation to assist and protect humanitarian activities, Operation Restore Hope under which the United States would assume the unified command of the new operation, in accordance with Resolution 794 (1992).

Mission shift to nation-building
A key moment in the operation was when the mission shifted from delivering food supplies to nation-building.On March 3, 1993 the U.N. Secretary-General submitted to the U.N. Security Council his recommendations for effecting the transition from UNITAF to UNOSOM II. He indicated that since the adoption of Council resolution 794 (1992) in December 1992, the presence and operations of UNITAF had a positive impact on the security situation in Somalia and on the effective delivery of humanitarian assistance (UNITAF deployed some 37,000 personnel over forty percent of southern and central Somalia). However, there was still no effective government, police, or national army with the result of serious security threats to UN personnel. To that end, the U.N. Security Council authorized UNOSOM II to establish a secure environment throughout Somalia, to achieve national reconciliation so as to create a democratic state.
Affairs went downward from there...

This is Vietraq, and folks, it was planned like a chess match.