…we’ll make more.
[The President at Arlington, yesterday.
Or in 2003. Or next year.]
That venerable Doritos slogan was running through my head yesterday, but I thought that Tuesday might be a more appropriate day to offer it up.
The President has promised us a particularly bloody summer, as the evildoers attempt to break our resolve. Turns out that they don’t think we have the guts to fight an unwinnable war for more than four or five years! They think that once we’ve been there for more than half a decade or have lost more than a few thousand troops, we’ll just go home. They think we’re a bunch of pussies! Do we want them to think that? Do we? “They” are sadly wrong, my friends, sadly, sadly wrong.
Because, in reality, we don’t have the guts to stop fighting this war.
Fanny Roborat
13 comments
dee
May 29, 2007 at 11:16 am
1But we’ll really really REALLY know more in September! That’s why those shining beacons of courage and strength in the Democratic party were willing to fund the war, with no accountability, for another four months. Because Gen. Petraeus will report about the results of the “surge” and we can make plans to bring everyone home starting next year.
Unless, of course, we can’t.
Zee Man
May 29, 2007 at 5:32 pm
2“They think we’re a bunch of pussies!”
Uh… Adam. I think after comment #27 in FanApMD Topic #472: How to Fight a Topical Infection you may want to ixnay the auvinismchay. But then you are a comedian and I guess you have to grab the punchlines where you find them. I’m just saying…
gillian
May 29, 2007 at 5:50 pm
3For all you liberal, tree-hugging, global warming conspirators out there.
BTW, you think W at least looks at the cartoons in the newspaper?
David
May 29, 2007 at 6:23 pm
4Tree hugging dirt worshipper here, gillian.
September is a big deal because I think that’s when the Colossus at Baghdad, otherwise know as the new U.S. Embassy, is scheduled to open, and presumably the Iraqis will have stepped up and ratified the U.S. designed Iraqi oil laws, thereby turning over the fabulous Iraqi oil reserves to U.S. oil companies. But it’s about freeing the Iraqis from a ruthless tyrant, Lobster love our benevolent paternalistic corporate militarism.
And Adam is, as usual, a political marksman of the first order: “Because, in reality, we don’t have the guts to stop fighting this war.”
And to the calls for ending this misadventure with honor, how in God’s name can an utterly dishonorable war of choice be declared honorable? The only honorable things to do are to speak truthfully, apologize, and leave the Iraqis alone. U.S. sponsored death-squad activity (remember El Salvador?) is now a staple in Iraq.
siobhan
May 29, 2007 at 8:26 pm
5First: Thanks, Adam.
Second: Oh, on second thought let’s just leave it with the first thought. Thanks, Adam.
Mike
May 29, 2007 at 11:47 pm
6Zee Man, I don’t know if a blog titled “Fanatical Apathy” should really care about being PC. If it was “Moderate and Conditional Apathy”, you might have a point.
It's Pat!
May 30, 2007 at 5:51 am
7I happen to like cats, and everything they do.
Ann
May 30, 2007 at 12:43 pm
8Zee Man, you don’t have to worry about my reaction on that count, as long as “dick” remains an insult too. I’m all about fairness.
Dale
May 30, 2007 at 5:06 pm
9Nixon, Cheney…yeah, I think ¨dick¨ will be an insult for quite some time.
waterfowler
May 30, 2007 at 5:43 pm
10Tree hugging dirt worshipper used a capital G.??? I’d check his credentials…
David, please explain the US death squads in Iraq. I must have been @ a ballgame, or fishing, or bird watching, or raisin’ the little rednecks…
Also, I’ve got about 1,000 trees in my back yard and I’m about to cut them all down. But, if any of y’all need to offset your carbon footprint, I’d be willing to let ‘em live for about $5K each. Feel free to pass this on to Al/Chickenfoot.
Dale
May 30, 2007 at 5:50 pm
11Don´t you mean ¨His¨ credentials?
cooper
May 30, 2007 at 7:17 pm
12OT. Hey, sportsfans. I just got back from a Charlotte Knights (White Sox AAA farm team) game where the very first pitch was knocked out of the park by Louisville and it went down hill from there - 13 to 6. Still, it beats a night in front of the TV.
David
May 31, 2007 at 6:28 pm
13waterfowler,
The administration announced its intention to use the “Salvador solution” some time back (translation: deathsquads). You have a different definition of political courage if you consider Al Gore a chickenfoot. Great picture of him on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine. Gore/Richardson ‘08.
The Orlando Magic lured my man Billy Donovan away. @#$%^&*!
But life effing goes on.