Ridiculous Statement of the Week

President Bush:

"There's an important debate going on in our nation's capital about Iraq," he said last week at the Council on Foreign Relations, "and the fact that we can debate these issues openly in the midst of a dangerous war brings credit to our democracy."

Um, I'm sorry. Debate? I've been debating you and your administration quite literally in my dreams for the last four years. Because there was no chance of a debate in any other forum in our culture. Not the media, not Congress, not your Administration, not ANYWHERE. The war was pre-determined, and thus not subject to debate.

I think, personally, that MAYBE we should have had this debate BEFORE we went to war, not after. Fundamentally, THAT is what undermines our troops. Not having a post-war reconstruction plan, IE phase IV in standard military war planning protocol? THAT undermines troops. Not Democratic resistance. DON'T YOU DARE try and accuse critics of being sissies. Ignorance and hubris are more sissy-like characters in my book. Great leaders, and great military leaders, put their people and their soldiers first and take all possible options into consideration. So screw you guys for attempting to imply that I, like other liberal-leaning or war-critiquing people are to blame. (Especially after my multiple earlier thoughts here.) If you were such experts at the Middle East (ahem, Wolfowitz) and you had actually done a proper analysis of Islamist politics and the ways in which terrorist groups have operated and evolved, than MAYBE we wouldn't have bungled this so badly.

ARGGGGGHHHH

This, and I just watched the "Very Beazley Christmas Story" on the White House website. I was almost starting to warm up to you guys. And then you had to drop that disgusting -- not to mention doctored -- web ad. Disgusting.

You know, I really try, I try so hard to accommodate. But I really can't get anywhere when they act like such petulant 5-year-old schoolyard bullies. In this situation, they are totally the the nasty fat kids who pelt you with dodgeballs and wag their tongues at you.

Gnight.

Posted: Tuesday - December 13, 2005 at 02:55 AM |