Sunday, September 26, 2004
THE PENTAGON'S REVENGE?
Yes, Gentle Readers, I'm back. Been busy making a living, getting lost in the day-to-day details of tending to things for money.
Just because I've been preoccupied, doesn't mean I haven't been keeping up with what is going on in the world.
Seems like the Pentagon has finally gotten the opportunity to openly 'tell it like it is'. The question is whether the people in our country will pay any attention before it is too late.
After the disasterous State of the Union Address that Bush gave in 2003 as a preamble to war, in which he unabashedly used unsupported intelligence to allude to Nigerian Yellowcake Uranium as a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, we wondered how long the Pentagon would continue to take the heat for the lies Bush told. Seems like today, the gloves are off and Pentagon officials came right out and told the press that, contrary to Bush's and the Iraq's New Puppet, I mean President's statements that the situation was getting better, the Pentagon confirmed that the situation is actually deteriorating!
Yes, after a week of at least 2 American beheadings and countless encounters with insurgents, we all know that we are, now, officially, bogged down. There are rumblings from within the Administration that we will be getting out of Iraq sometime in 2005, in direct contradiction to Bush's stance that we 'would stay the course.'
We can even see the tide beginning to turn in the run up to the Presidential Election. Kerry is beginning to hammer Bush on Iraq, courting the female 19 to 40 demographic which is most concerned about their children serving in Iraq. Yeah, can you imagine how being in Iraq for the next 4 years will impact our country? How much farther away from Al Qaeda and other Terrorist Cells can we get? I guess you could say Bush is actually 'drawing' terrorists to us in Iraq. Maybe that's their strategy. Well, if it is, I'd say the strategy is working, for what it is worth.
Meanwhile, a front page article in the Los Angeles Times today says that Al Qaeda has changed and become more scattered and more dangerous. Why can't anyone see that this whole Iraq war was a serious diversion from the real mission? Had we 'stayed the course' when we moved into Afghanistan, maybe we could have at least gotten closer to capturing Osama bin Laden, or at least get deep enough to gain valuable intelligence that would have made a difference.
I'm no fan of Kerry, but I have to say, at this point, he's better than 4 more years of the MadMan we have in the White House today.
Yes, Gentle Readers, I'm back. Been busy making a living, getting lost in the day-to-day details of tending to things for money.
Just because I've been preoccupied, doesn't mean I haven't been keeping up with what is going on in the world.
Seems like the Pentagon has finally gotten the opportunity to openly 'tell it like it is'. The question is whether the people in our country will pay any attention before it is too late.
After the disasterous State of the Union Address that Bush gave in 2003 as a preamble to war, in which he unabashedly used unsupported intelligence to allude to Nigerian Yellowcake Uranium as a link between Al Qaeda and Iraq, we wondered how long the Pentagon would continue to take the heat for the lies Bush told. Seems like today, the gloves are off and Pentagon officials came right out and told the press that, contrary to Bush's and the Iraq's New Puppet, I mean President's statements that the situation was getting better, the Pentagon confirmed that the situation is actually deteriorating!
Yes, after a week of at least 2 American beheadings and countless encounters with insurgents, we all know that we are, now, officially, bogged down. There are rumblings from within the Administration that we will be getting out of Iraq sometime in 2005, in direct contradiction to Bush's stance that we 'would stay the course.'
We can even see the tide beginning to turn in the run up to the Presidential Election. Kerry is beginning to hammer Bush on Iraq, courting the female 19 to 40 demographic which is most concerned about their children serving in Iraq. Yeah, can you imagine how being in Iraq for the next 4 years will impact our country? How much farther away from Al Qaeda and other Terrorist Cells can we get? I guess you could say Bush is actually 'drawing' terrorists to us in Iraq. Maybe that's their strategy. Well, if it is, I'd say the strategy is working, for what it is worth.
Meanwhile, a front page article in the Los Angeles Times today says that Al Qaeda has changed and become more scattered and more dangerous. Why can't anyone see that this whole Iraq war was a serious diversion from the real mission? Had we 'stayed the course' when we moved into Afghanistan, maybe we could have at least gotten closer to capturing Osama bin Laden, or at least get deep enough to gain valuable intelligence that would have made a difference.
I'm no fan of Kerry, but I have to say, at this point, he's better than 4 more years of the MadMan we have in the White House today.
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