Last ditch red herring unpatriotic rhetorical blues in A minor

How long before they resurrect gay marriage and flag burning initiatives? The current White House authorized talking points are focusing on how Democrats want to appease terrorists by hastily cutting and running from Vietnam redux. Problem is, they can't seem to find a single Democrat who supports that position. This is how it's spun folks. You can't actually call your opponent an unpatriotic Nazi appeaser, but you can certainly insinuate it. Who cares if it's true, just get the damned sound bite out there, wash rinse and repeat!

It's not like anyone remembers last week when the shrub had the audacity to assert that "nobody has ever suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack." Of course Cheney never said Saddam ordered the attack as if he was supersizing some fries when he gassed the Kurds, he merely insinuated it.

How to effectively disarm for your own self

It's easy, just invite Bush, Cheney and friends to the warfighting table. As Sy Hersh points out, the White House

"was closely involved in the planning of Israel's retaliatory attacks. President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah's heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American preemptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground."

Ah, so that's why they were so successfull at disarming Hezbollah! Also, is there any scarier sentence than one that begins "President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced..." ?

The Road to Hell

Intentions are one of those pre-9/11 mindset concerns. It used to be that a superpower could bomb civilians back to the stone age and then say "well sorry mate, but we didn't target the civilians" and the world would go "well that's a regretable loss of 300 lives, but I guess they really needed to take out that guy on the 31st floor." Those were the days. Now, you take out one UN Peacekeeper camp or Al Jazeera headquarters and everone starts asking just exactly how the hell that could have happened, like didn't you see the big red cross on top of that truck?

Has it occured to those who order the dropping of the bombs that this whole war on evil thing is not just a tactical military fight? Do they realize that every child they orphan is going to grow up financially strapped with a pretty substantial chip on their shoulder?

Good intentions can be evil,
Both hands can be full of grease.
You know that sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
- Bob Dylan