5 Responses to “Four more years over there and is this our ‘Nam?”

1. The Heretik Writes:
   August 22nd, 2005 at 9:58 am

   DAWN OF THE DEAD: IRAQ

   IRAQ IS DEAD and a new dawn finds the new dead walking. Women’s rights are gone, lost to Shari’a and the religious law the Bush geniuses either didn’t see coming or didn’t care about. The Kurds will keep their

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2. Glaivester Writes:
   August 22nd, 2005 at 10:02 am

   I doubt there will be a draft. It would be political suicide.

   If we don’t have enough troops, we will simply make do occupying Iraq with a smaller force. If a smaller force is not able to provide adequate security, we will start using brutality to make up for what we lack in numbers.

   In other words, expect policies such as “every time an American soldier is killed, we wipe out a Sunni Arab village,” or expect us to deputize Kurdish peshmerga to “provide security” in hotspots (i.e. go in and slaughter a lot of the Sunni Arab population).

   If the choice is a draft or genocide, I expect our leaders will choose genocide.

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3. Pseudo-Adrienne Writes:
   August 22nd, 2005 at 10:09 am

   “If the choice is a draft or genocide, I expect our leaders will choose genocide. ”

   Because obviously, when we–the U.S.–commit genocide, it’s “okay.” It’s sick knowing that it will probably come down to that, and we will be hypocrites in the eyes of the rest of the world when it comes to us preaching human rights and denouncing genocide. Not that Dubya or the neocons in Congress give a damn about the world community (ie: sending Bolton over to the UN), but anyway…

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4. Lee Writes:
   August 23rd, 2005 at 5:40 am

   What I find disturbing about the comparisons to Viet Nam is that there is an increasing attitude of “Whatever you think is necessary, just not with my child” that I am witnessing in certain parts of this country. Just as many well-to-do parents found ways for their sons to avoid the draft back then, nowadays they are finding ways to keep their children from volunteering, regardless of their actual stance on the war. Check out this Washington Post editorial.

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5. laertes Writes:
   August 24th, 2005 at 9:12 am

   I fear no one has adequately thought this through. *Of course* the drunk-driving C student in the White House will still have 100,000 troops bogged down in Iraq in another 4 years. And *of course* they won’t be able to win, either. Like Bre’er Rabbit in the tarpit, the drunk-driving C student has gotten himself into a horrific catch-22 where he can’t go forward and can’t move back. Look, if he orders our troops out, the fringe lunatic American Century crew will eviscerate him. These paranoid Perel-style wackos are his _political base_. They’re _all he has left_ now that he’s fallen below 36% approval rating in the polls. So the drunk-driving C student can’t order the troops out. But he can’t win either, as the history of so many guerilla movements proves. Carpet bombing, genocide, death squads, torture…all that was tried by far more hardened warriors than American National Guardsmen. All the brutality you can imagine was unleasehed in the Ukraine during WW II and it didn’t work. The Soviet spetznatz went medieval in Afghanistan, and it didn’t work. Psyops in Viet Nam by CIA-trained SEALs piled up heads and ears of VC, and that didn’t work either. So what are we going to do in Iraq? You really think anything _we_ can do will scare people who lived under _Saddam_ for 30 years?

   The American Army will wriggle like a snake nailed to the wall, and it’s going to bleed. For 4 more intolerably long years.

   If you think the drunk-driving C student’s approval rating is low now, wait until the fall of 2007. Wait until some mother goes mad with grief and sets herself on fire in front of the White House. Wait until parents start fire-bombing Army recruiters centers. Wait until you see million-person antiware demonstrations in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Wait until the drunk-driving C students starts talking to portraits of ex-Presidents in the White House corridors at night and proclaiming “I am not a crook” on national television.

   This maladministration is Nixon on crack, and it’s going to get a lot uglier before it finishes. Will the drunk-driving C student’s own party offer impeachment resolutions in late 2007 to save their collective political asses? I don’t know. But I do know that whenyou’ve got a rich kid in the White House who has shown chronic irresponsibility by driving drunk for years and who proven his laziness and gross incompetence by slithering through college with a C average, the result is exactly what we’ve got. I mean…c’mon, people! Would YOU hire a chronic drunk driver with a C average in college as the CEO of _your_ company? What do you expect from someone like that? This is a guy who couldn’t empty a boot even if the instructions were printed on the heel, and who is constitutionally incapable of taking responsibility for his screw-ups, so *of course* we’re in for 4 more years of the same. More death. More lies. More futility. More grieving parents. This is like a CEO who spends his days tooting coke and banging supermodels and running his company into the ground. It only ends when the board of directors gets fed up and fires him.

   For someone like the drunk-driving C student in the White House, there’s no option. He _can’t_ admit he was wrong — ever. For four long years American soliders will scream and spin through their air with their arms and legs blown to hamburger and their guts strailing 10 yards out of their stomachs, and it’ll just keep getting worse…and *worse*…and W*O*R*S*E. All because 51% of the American people were gullible and foolish enough to ensconce in the White House a drunk-driving C student who had already messed everything up to a fare-thee-well by the end of the first four years.

   Well, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet, kiddies. The next 4 years are going to teach a lot of people some hard lessons. They’ll teach high school kids that it’s not a real smart idea to play John Wayne when a drunk-driving frat boy is running the country. They’ll teach parents that patriotism is now a scam used to lure suckers into a meatgrinder. They’ll teach the red states that there are a lot worse things that flag-burning and partial-birth abortion…like, oh, say, cowardly liars who wrap themselves in the flag before fumbling and bumbling and stumbling and bungling other people’s sons and daughters to death in a foreign desert. And the next 4 years might even teach the news media that sometimes, just sometimes, when Swift Boaters start the old Senator Joe McCarthy two-step, there really are two sides to every story…the truth, and the lies.

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