Dubya is delusional, but at least he is warming to the idea of a Vietnam-Iraq analogy, after all these years of dismissing the concept.
He is one of the power group who conveniently find it unprofitable to learn from mistakes (or history), although America knew that he was a failed business executive (multiple failures) and they hired him anyway. (I know, I know, Gore did win, but the numbers were so close that they could be finagled.)
Does anybody have Dubya on tape during his first election campaign repeating that America should not be into nation building! I remember I saw him say it in a debate with Gore.
If wishes were ponies, Laura would slip a copy of Fog of War into his dvd mix, but I doubt he would understand it.
Fog of War... Let's see, if it took our politicians years to finally admit the error of invading Vietnam, even after they knew it was a mistake to go on for one more minute, and about half, or 26 or 27 thousand extra American soldiers (and untold "collateral" Vietnamese "damage") lives were wasted in the name of political face, then we are looking for Dubya and his henchman Dirty Dick to sacrifice a whole lot more American soldiers and "collateral" Iraqi "damage".
Which is probably why the 14 spankin' new permanent bases are built in Iraq but the hospitals, roads, schools, power grid and civil law and order infrastructure are all still a shocked and awed shambles.
But the potential for profit is still on the upside!
Isn't that what Capitalism is all about?
Blood for oil, arms sales, bloated privatized military contracts... Didn't one of those neo-con snake oil salesmen once say on the edge of chaos is where the potential for profit lays?
Iraq is not the only sheep being shorn here folks.
If you were slightly stirred by the scarey images of horror that Dubya catapulted at the Vet convention, I would like you to remember, we bombed Cambodia for politics, to impress the folks at home, that is why all those things Dubya catapulted on about happened under the Pol Pot regime.
I even am hearing the repetitious right wing meme that we can install a strong man in Iraq and pull out (to the permanent bases.) If horrors are to happen, wouldn't a strong man do them, worse than a civil war.
I say, let the Iraqis lead themselves for a change. We might all be surprised.
And what, aside from the astonishing fog-blowing act Dubya performed for the Vets, makes you think that the Iraqis will follow us home to make war on us here? Like the Vietnamese followed us home to make war on us? The American public must have ADD and memory loss if they believe Dubya's bull shit.
I listened to the words he was saying and kept thinking "WHAT is he TALKIN' about! WHAT KIND of LOGIC is he making? Do other Americans, like those Vets at that convention, REALLY drink this man's KOOLAIDE without a single question, without the smallest twinge of cognitive dissonance?
Those guys at the convention should have known history better than that and booed him off the stage. What is America coming to, when political patriotism supplants memory, judgement, and honesty?
I've always said it - terrorism is a criminal act. Treat it like a crime and it'll get solved. Get military involved, and you'll lose more than your shirt to the war machine. You'll lose a lot of your soldiers.
We need to end war.
We need to begin diplomacy.
We need to regain our sanity.
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