Wednesday, October 11, 2006
"We Will Not Tolerate Nuclear Weapons in North Korea..."
C'mon, you know this is a better use of $20 than buying Kingdom Come.
That's what G Dubs said back in May 2003.
So let me get this straight: in 2003, our intelligence couldn't definitively confirm that Iraq had WMD but we twisted it around to mislead the public into supporting the war for operation "Iraqi freedom" and to disarm Saddam of WMD's that turn out to have never existed. On the other hand, North Korea explicitly claims to have developed and detonated a nuclear device but we're not actually sure the explosion the other day even came from a bona fide WMD. [SMH] Amazing....
So while Congress gets their $20 million budget ready to celebrate the end-of-war party, here's the real deal:
“The number of U.S troops wounded in Iraq has surged to its highest monthly level in nearly two years as American GIs fight block-by-block in Baghdad to try to check a spiral of sectarian violence that U.S. commanders warn could lead to civil war.” (related: The US casualty rate in Iraq is the worst since Fallujah. )
There have been 4,000 Iraq police killed in the past 2 years. I guess those are the ones who haven't beem demobilized for being secretly members of death squads, getting poisoned or having feces and urine rained down on them from the ceiling of the new $75 million police academy built by the same hacks who built the Big Dig “disaster” in Boston.
Bush: Cut And Runner?
Meanwhile in Afghanistan, the country from which Bush actually cut and run letting Bin Laden escape unharmed in the process....
Five Years Later: Afghanistan Reverts To Breeding Ground For Terror
And the US is on the tipping point of seeing Afghans switch their allegiance back to resurgent Taliban militants.
Is that why Sen. Bill Frist wants to appease the Taliban
And Afghan girls are back in the shadowsMeanwhile, a poll of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets say the military is overstretched and underequipped.
But like Matt at 1115.org says: "Pay No Attention to the Dead Enders, Things are Just Fine."
And listen, Bush says that in the future with the hindsight of historical perspective, the bloodshed in Iraq will be looked at as "just a comma."
Bonus options:
Mad TV's Kim Jong Il x Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" video parody - now THAT's pretty funny! Mad-TV is kind of underrated.
Bob Woodward's State of Denial (related: more here and here)
