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May. 11th, 2007 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fr_defenestratoFrom the perfectly named Dick Cheney's remarks to U.S. Troops at Contingency Operating Base Speicher, Iraq:
"We are here, above all, because the terrorists who have declared war on America and other free nations have made Iraq the central front in that war."
Oh, they HAVE, have they? That's funny, I coulda sweared WE had decided to take our war on terror to one of the few friggin' places in the Middle East that WASN'T overrun with jihadists.
"[Osama et al.] see this country as the center of a new caliphate, from which they can stir extremism and violence throughout the region..."
Damn' nice of us to have paved the way for that caliphate by taking out the strong central government, repugnant as the head of that govt was.
"...in Baghdad... Americans are working beside Iraqi forces to carry out the new strategy."
Yeah, what was that strategy again? Oh, yeah: don't get blowed up. Funny how much that looks like the old strategy, but it must be new since the media keeps repeating that it's new, ofttimes intoning it resonantly up Mr. Cheney's ass.
"The job now is to persevere in every area of operations..."
Yes, by all means, stay the course. I mean, if we're really, really persistent, these naughty Muslim fundies will see that we mean business and they'll eventually stop sending suicide bombers to mess things up because they see how pointless that is. Then they'll renounce violence altogether and take up singing old, spiritually uplifting Cat Stevens songs. But only if we stay!
"We understand full well the nature of the enemy that struck America on 9/11, and we see their kind every day here in Iraq."
This is the same deception the Bush administration has been pulling since Shrubarranged 9/11 as figured out that 9/11 was an excuse to take Iraq... He's not saying explicitly that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 but the implication is clear, and it's repeated every day by one of more of these fuckers in the press. It should be a criminal offense to so willfully mislead the American people (as it should be a criminal offense purely to be so easily misled). We're not fooling anybody else, except perhaps M. Sarkozy and the unquestionably turgid and likely pre-cumming ghosts of Mussolini and Franco. This is not the exportation of democracy. It is the commandeering and sale of a sovereign nation (um, I mean ours, BTW, but we've already annexed Iraq thereto) to the few wealthiest men at the top of a few multinational corporations with offshore, tax-free bank accounts. It is goddamn Louis 14th all over again, and the peasants are getting progressively more hungry.
Believe me, I'm scareder than the average bear of fundamentalist Islam. I do not quarrel that the United States and every other civilized nation on earth needs to be prepared to fight extensively against what has evolved into an enormous cult of mass murder. At the same time I don't see that which we're doing in Iraq as germane to those struggles; our initial invasion most certainly was not remotely related to combating Islamic terror. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so monumentally fucked up by a coup perpetrated by a rogue aggressor state, can long endure. Unfortunately, I think we have all seen by now that, yes! they CAN long endure, and endure, and endure, and endure. It's like an entire nation of celibates on Viagra. Ours is an occupying army, engaged in security measures, not warfighting; and our presence there does nothing but make the angry people who want to blow us up angrier. And wantier.
(Sorry, RK, looks like we're going to have to agree to disagree here :)
"We are here, above all, because the terrorists who have declared war on America and other free nations have made Iraq the central front in that war."
Oh, they HAVE, have they? That's funny, I coulda sweared WE had decided to take our war on terror to one of the few friggin' places in the Middle East that WASN'T overrun with jihadists.
"[Osama et al.] see this country as the center of a new caliphate, from which they can stir extremism and violence throughout the region..."
Damn' nice of us to have paved the way for that caliphate by taking out the strong central government, repugnant as the head of that govt was.
"...in Baghdad... Americans are working beside Iraqi forces to carry out the new strategy."
Yeah, what was that strategy again? Oh, yeah: don't get blowed up. Funny how much that looks like the old strategy, but it must be new since the media keeps repeating that it's new, ofttimes intoning it resonantly up Mr. Cheney's ass.
"The job now is to persevere in every area of operations..."
Yes, by all means, stay the course. I mean, if we're really, really persistent, these naughty Muslim fundies will see that we mean business and they'll eventually stop sending suicide bombers to mess things up because they see how pointless that is. Then they'll renounce violence altogether and take up singing old, spiritually uplifting Cat Stevens songs. But only if we stay!
"We understand full well the nature of the enemy that struck America on 9/11, and we see their kind every day here in Iraq."
This is the same deception the Bush administration has been pulling since Shrub
Believe me, I'm scareder than the average bear of fundamentalist Islam. I do not quarrel that the United States and every other civilized nation on earth needs to be prepared to fight extensively against what has evolved into an enormous cult of mass murder. At the same time I don't see that which we're doing in Iraq as germane to those struggles; our initial invasion most certainly was not remotely related to combating Islamic terror. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so monumentally fucked up by a coup perpetrated by a rogue aggressor state, can long endure. Unfortunately, I think we have all seen by now that, yes! they CAN long endure, and endure, and endure, and endure. It's like an entire nation of celibates on Viagra. Ours is an occupying army, engaged in security measures, not warfighting; and our presence there does nothing but make the angry people who want to blow us up angrier. And wantier.
(Sorry, RK, looks like we're going to have to agree to disagree here :)
