As deaths of former tyrants go, it was utterly undignified and took place amid scenes of humiliation and name-calling. But enough about Pauline Fowler. Saddam swung, captured on a video-phone (he was hanging on the telephone, you might say), and 2006's round of celebrity deaths almost overshadowed the fact that more US soldiers have died in the Iraq debacle than civilians died on 9/11, not to mention how many Iraqis have perished since Our Glorious Leaders began this conflict in someone else's country. To compensate for this, and despite the fact that the new Democrat-led Senate and most of the population of the United States are against it, King "we wouldna done it like that in Tex's" George has announced he's going to send even more troops Over There. He musta felt so proud of the Mission Accomplished when those guards taunted Saddam as the noose was placed around his neck with cheers of support for Saddam's enemy, Moqtada Al Sadr. Um, America's current enemy. This looked very much like a victory not for the Iraqi people and democr'cy, but for the people King George claims to be fighting against. To be sending young American soldiers to die for. George knows this. But he and his neo-con moneymakers will not admit defeat or admit they were wrong and have fucked everything up for everybody, Iraqis and Americans alike, not to mention everyone else on the planet. They want 'victory'. They don't want peace, they want 'victory'. Until recently that's what they were saying was being acheived, and it sounded very much like Comical Ali, remember him, Saddam's PR man? Now George knows it's too late to turn back the clock, that even the horrendous police state that was Iraq was much safer in the world when it wasn't overrun by the people we know as terr'rists. So he's going to send a 'troop surge'. Maybe, though, us anti-war lib'rals are all wrong, maybe the King's right, a true visionary, maybe he sees a tactic in sending more troops to the slaughter that we don't, after all he's such a great tactician. Remember back in 03, when we all said going to war was a stupid idea that would not make any of us any safer and certainly wouldn't make Iraq any safer, that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and there was no evidence of weapons of mass-destruction, but George just grinned and gave us his 'trust me, I know what I'm doing' smirk? Ok, we'll give him that one, he was wrong that once, maybe his tactics will work this time? Bollocks. We cannot trust this buffoon in running the world's affairs any longer. Lord knows what chaos he will bring upon us in his remaining two years of office. the US (and by extension, the world) is becoming a totalitarian regime by tiny increments as we plunge into Wolfowitz's New American Century. A few weeks ago, as Donut Rumsfeld was given his sending off party in front of the troops, Cheney and Bush congratulated themselves on concreting America's military dominnce of the planet, and royally slagging off allies for not spending as much on their arms budgets as the US. These heavily armed and weapon-crazy people are running your planet already folks, isn't it wonderful. Please, America, please change this soon. You've made a start with the Senate, let's win back the White House, and the trust of the world. And this concludes pete's first political rant for a while.
have i got noose for you
7.1.07 08:25
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