Take the Al-Qaeda
There is something about that “No Civil War” meme that Bill “Pennywise” Kristol...
(h/t Think Progress)...and the rest of the slaughterporn junkies and rightard baby ducks have been pushing that intrigues me.
We’re not in a civil war. This is just not true. American troops are attacking al Qaeda. They’re attacking some elements of the Shi’a militias. They’re doing other things, helping with reconciliation. They are not in the middle of a civil war. It’s not true.
I mean, it’s such a blatant and homicidal lie – the lie of a man caught chest deep in body parts and gore with a machete in his hand, screaming, “What blood? What are you talking about?” – that it is sort of breathtaking.
And yet “reputable” news organization keep putting cameras in front of this assassin and asking for his opinion on things as if he weren’t right out of his fucking mind. Keep shoving money into the claws of this smirking butcher and asking him to write columns for “serious” papers and magazines on matters about which he has been 100% wrong, every time, forever.
But once the vertigo that came from realizing what the presence of Bill Kristol as a “serious” commenter signifies about the sheer magnitude of the failure and complicity of the media passed I got to wondering: If there is no Civil War in Iraq, how’s come we need to stay even one more minute?
If there is no Civil War in Iraq, how’s come we need to worry about Al-Qaeda’s Iraq Outlet Mall at all?
No Civil War would mean that Iraq must be a non-Civil-War-waging member of the brotherhood of nations, every bit as motivated to wipe out this small but pernicious threat in their midst as we would be if Al-Qaeda were evildoing in, say, Florida? (OK, bad example.)
On the other hand, if there is no Civil War in Iraq and they want Al-Qaeda there, then, wow, that’s kind bad, huh? I mean doesn’t that mean that we’d have to re-re-re-re-re-invade? Be re-re-re-re-re-welcomed as liberators?
Be re-re-re-re-re-re-strewn with candy and flowers (M&Ms and plastic roses this time; as we learned in the second annual “Mission Accomplished” Victory Parade through George W. Bush square in downtown Baghdad, the heat played Hob with bon bons and those fragrant Improvised Evening-primrose Decorations they lobbed last time.)
Don’t we have to re-re-re-re-shock-n-awe them?
Re-re-re-re-depose an Evil Iraqi Government that countenances such alliances (and that we spilled such an awful lot of blood and treasure to elect)?
Re-re-re-re-destroy their infrastructure?
Re-re-re-re-bring them to their knees?
Re-re-re-re-distribute the pots of blue ink so that they can re-re-re-re-elect a newer-er-er government run by better men?
That is, of course, unless the situation in Iraq actually is a Civil War
A pile…a heap…a fucking ziggurat of Pan-Civil War Cannoli.
Each one mashed into the next.
Each one stuffed with different, fractious flavors of ethnic, tribal, familiar, religious, doctrinal, regional, political and economic grudges.
All drizzled with oil and rage, scalded by being occupied by an unwelcome Western power, and baking in the desert sun.
With a light dusting of Al-Qaeda.
Because in order for them to preserve the last rags and tatters of their epic, murderous, Crusader Delusion, from the safety of their Mommy’s basement on the other side of the Earth, that is precisely the task Bill Kristol and the entire 101st Chairborne hysterically demands that our military perform: Delicately teasing apart the powdered sugar from the rest of the mountain of burning confection using the blunt instruments of Abrams tanks and Apache helicopters.
So if there is a Civil War, then we should leave, because there is no way for us to referee such a thing.
But if there is no Civil War, and therefore no looming threat of massive, pitched and Civil-War-like bloodshed if we leave, then the Iraqis have obviously “Stood up”.
And it is time for us to stand down and go home.
16 comments:
Kristol's presence in the media is an indictment of the media's complicity in giving a platform to a guy who is, indeed, "out of his mind" and "100% wrong, every time, forever." I don't know how it's possible to lie any more obviously or to be any more consistently wrong than Kristol...though I did hear Mark Levin last night literally saying "we have them on the run in Iraq" and "we are inflicting massive casualties" on insurgents but they are being undermined by the media and the liberals, of course, who are going to "stab our army in the back" and lose the war.
Time to bring back the tar and feathers bit for these asshats.
This hit me good because just this weekend I've started yelling at the TV THIS SPECIFIC THING:
"Why are you listening to this idiot? Why is he on and you are nodding your head all reasonable when this idiot makes no sense at all?"
Well, right now all it's doing is scaring the cats, so I have to moderate my voice to a evil hiss...
But seriously, can't anyone tell their ass from their elbow on TV anymore?
Thank heaven for Countdown.
One of the fine things about you, Drift, is that you remind us that ideas and thoughts still drive actions.
And, of course, when they're peddled by a coterie of neo-fascist corporate shitbirds bedazzling a little court-apointed, entitled, fratrat peckerhead, who was pre-disposed to them anyway, they can drive actions in the direction of a bloody, worse-than-useless, loon-crusade.
Now, the ideas and thoughts, much reinforced by reality, are driving action in another direction...in the direction of:
"Wow! This is really fucked up. Whose fault is it?"
And that "whose fault it is?" query, is the one that bush and the GOP so desperately want to squelch.
And what is so nauseatingly obvious, is that so many democrats, fer Earl's sake, don't seem to want it asked or answered, either.
I lean towards John Edwards, of the candidates. He is no Abraham Lincoln, but then, Abraham Lincoln was no "Abraham Lincoln" when he was debating Stephen Douglas, and campaigning in his first run. (That came later, when he was such a rock-wizard against the evils of the confederacy.)
Edwards has some warts. They all do. But he seems to me to be more willing to speak the truth about what george bush has done to us, than Clinton or Obama.
BUT!!! He has to decide whether or not he wants to see george bush finish out his term, and slink off to some boardroom, after he dumps the flaming bag of shit in his successor's lap. He has to decide WHEN to start seriously flaming on the bastards that have done this to us. (Hint: don't wait too long, John.)
He has to find the courage to tell the american people that there is not going to be a "good" ending to the invasion and attempted occupation of Iraq. None was ever possible.
This is not L. Paul Bremer's fault; it was graven in stone when that first Abrams rolled across the dry-bed Rubicon on the Kuwait-Iraq border.
We are going to have to settle for getting our troops out of "working the middle" in this World-Cup-of mayhem-and-carnage final, and then using what little influence we have left, to try, to hope, that the factions will decide that working out some split of territory and oil, will be preferable to them than an even worse civil war than the one which george bush has created.
And John Edwards, or SOMEONE, needs to start saying these things to the american people.
I know: people don't get elected to the presidency by telling us that we're up shit creek. Or, they get elected by saying that "I can paddle us out of this". Which in this case, is an outrageous lie.
I know: speaking the truth to the voters is a shitty job; particularly with what bush has bestowed on us, but hey; someone's got to do it.
BTW Drift, at this point, talking about
"one of your best" is almost meaningless. There have been so many good ones, that those words are worn as smooth as rocks in a river.
But you really nailed it with this one, about what is happening there. And why it's happening.
My God drifty, I'm going to have to pimp this out as much as possible. This is the morning star on the business end of the obvious stick.
Fucking beautiful.
And Kristol? That smarmy, smirking sack of leeches and hantavirus needs to be wished into the cornfield of media, never to be heard from again.
And Kristol? That smarmy, smirking sack of leeches and hantavirus needs to be wished into the cornfield of media, never to be heard from again.
I've been wishing for just that as hard as I can for some time now. All I've gotten for my trouble is chafing.
Dammit.
Is it just my inattention and limited powers of observation, or does Mr. Kristol never appear on a forum where immediate, call-in feedback is available?
Yet no one bothers to call him out on his lies.
The MSM just turns the fucking volume up and hits repeat.
I'd like Keith Olbermann to get a shitload of video clips of Bloody Bill and put them together for his show.
Run 'em back to back while Ko just keeps saying, Wrong, Wrong, Wrong Again.
Sandman said...
And Kristol? That smarmy, smirking sack of leeches and hantavirus needs to be wished into the cornfield of media, never to be heard from again.
I liked that SO much, I wanted to put it up again.
Drifty, what can I say? Blew me away once again. This little bastid, Bloody Bill, skeeves me to no end. He's as much an enabler to war crimes as Streicher or Schact were. Only Billy doesn't speak German so he'll never wind up on the end of a rope in the Hague for his crimes. Shame 'bout that, eh?
One small observation for discussion: Is Bloody Bill a root cause or a symptom of what this country has turned into? I mean with all the juice he and his family have with TPTB, is that power there only because they enable those who now run this nation? Or was their accumulated power there by association with the Big Kids at the End of The Block and no matter what side they took they'd still be in the tent, pissing out? I know, kinda 'chicken and the egg' but I'm interested in what the numerous 'Major Thinkers' here might say.
My money's on the former solution. If the Dem's were in control the last 30 years, these thought crime... er, "Think Tank", guys would be second bananas. Limping along on a much-reduced Wingnut Welfare, away from the cameras, except when they say they saw a flying saucer or some other equally silly thing as a publicity stunt.
Kristol will continue to delude himself and deceive the public as long as the media continue to give him a forum and treat him as though he were sane.
Although I consider myself a reasonable and well behaved person, if the producers of news shows kept inviting me on to spray spittle, play with my naked genitals and speak in tongues, and major newspapers continued to publish my opinion pieces consisting of the same incoherent ramblings, all the while I were being paid a handsome sum to edit magazines and write books... sure, I'd be a professional looney too.
It appears that with his all-nighter, Reid has given the GOP zit a pretty good squeeze, and what's coming out isn't pretty.
But, it IS funny. :o)
Sustain THIS for a while, Harry, and all will be forgiven. :o)
I certainly wouldn't mind hearing some of your choice commentary on the National Review sailing cruise in which the more affluent of the pig-people really let it all hang out. If anyone on the fence is predisposed to scoff when you say that one can't be a good American and a good Republican in the Age of W, they should read the article I just linked.
the Kristol ship
is being filled
a thousand lies
ten thousand die
h/t the doors
"Kristol...needs to be wished into the cornfield..." [said justme]
Agreed. He's a bad man! He's a VERY bad man! ;)
Off topic: I'm taking vacation this week. Woo-hoo, extra hoo!
IvoryBill; have a good one. Drive safe. Recharge the batts. See you when you get back.
LoveandLight; a few years ago, Harper's mag had a fine rip of the cruise ships. It wasn't so much political, although there was some of that, as I remember.
More like being a captive in a touron petrie-dish. The writer hammered 'em. Good stuff.
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