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November 28, 2005

Laura Ingraham - Who Do These American Soldiers Think They Are?

by Ferdinand T Cat

Last Wednesday on her show Laura Ingraham talked to Army Major Steve Warren and Coast Guard Commander Duke Walker about the situation in Iraq. Both men talked about how much support they've been getting from the Iraqi people and the many aspects of normalcy that are beginning to show up on the ground. One of them talked about advertising billboards popping up across the landscape; the other described the many brave Iraqis willing to work for the new government even though it makes them a target for terrorists.

It occurred to me that this is very different from the picture presented by John Murtha, and I had to ask myself why. Since I am a superior life form, the answer came to me immediately: neither Warren nor Walker were in Viet Nam!. It is clear that Viet Nam service is the defining characteristic of knowledge about the war in Iraq. After all, John Kerry's Viet Nam service was a big part of his campaign, and Murtha himself derided Vice President Cheney's expertise because Cheney was not in Viet Nam.

So, clearly, we have to stop listening to people who are on the ground in Iraq and start polling guys who were in Viet Nam. This will not only make Murtha and his supporters happier, it will insure that the liberation of Iraq is just as successful as the liberation of South Viet Nam! Maybe Iraq isn't another Viet Nam, but with the right people in charge, we can fix that!

Respectfully submitted,

Ferdinand T. Cat

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Comments

Normalcy is billboards and being targets for shootings? Sounds like a large part of the American landscape. Does that make the removal of Hussein and the elimination of "terrorists" successful? Until Iraqis can get their latte grande to sit upright in the coffee holder in their Hummer the road to democracy will be paved with the bones of those pesky terrorists...

American democracy is a sham, peace at the point of a gun is a greater sham. Why is the U.S. still stuck in the 50's mindset of being the world's police force?

Is the world (or Iraq) a safer place now than before the removal of Saddam Hussein? Was Iraq a haven for terrorists before the power vacuum the U.S. created, or after?

When will the Bush administration admit it screwed up in the execution of this conflict and start making positive changes aimed at creating peaceful resolution, rather than stubbornly adhering to obviously flawed policy based on obviously flawed intelligence?

Sometimes you realize you're fucking the wrong corpse and a pullout is the only justifiable and ethical thing to do.

Love to all,
dg


Posted by: drgoo at November 28, 2005 10:49 AM

Very typical leftist logic. If everything does not go perfectly then we should just give up. I wonder if dg lives his/her life that way. The absolute fact is that things are getting better in Iraq. The Wall Street Journal reports that real estate prices are rising. The dinar is stable and people who fled Iraq under Saddam are returning by the thousands. Those are not the signs of failure.

It seems to me that while good people are creating democracy and freedom the left is just humping corpses.


Posted by: Blind Avocado at November 30, 2005 1:26 AM

Stop when things go wrong? Heavens no, let's just push harder. Things are going badly, we're alienating ourselves from the rest of the world, more Americans are being killed weekly, Iraqis are being tortured by AMERICAN led Iraqi forces (not to mention the torture offered by the Americans...) but by God we're not going to stop. That would send the wrong signal to the enemy.

Ok, here's the signal. We screwed up. We're still screwing up. And apparently we're going to keep screwing up.

Americans cannot create democracy in Iraq. That job is entirely up to Iraqis.

Oh, and stop wondering about how I live my life. I'll tell you. When I fuck up I admit it, I don't keep fucking up and declare the need to stay the course for fear of sending the wrong signal.

Keep on keepin' on, friend.

Love to all,
DG


Posted by: drGoo at November 30, 2005 2:42 AM

Well there DG ... You've screwed up but you just don't realize it yet ... but you will some day and when you do, I'm sure you'll admit it as the honorable person you are. I do agree that democracy in Iraq, in the end, is ultimately up to the Iraqis ... with a little help from their friends. Then again, we had a little help from our friends creating this little oasis of incivility of ours.


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