Stupid is as Stupid Does
I awoke with the sound of my radio telling me the latest news this morning. It wasn’t much different than it has been over the last five years. More stupidity in Iraq came out of the radio and into my ears.
But, today’s stupidity was another dunce cap placed on the head of the Bush administration. They must truly believe that Americans are that stupid. First I heard that Tony Blair has finally come to his senses and is bringing about 20% of the British troops home. In addition two more countries Denmark and Lithuania have come to their senses as well and are bringing their troops home. I know that Denmark and Lithuania didn’t really contribute a huge amount of manpower to this fight, however, when we went into the war 50 soldiers counted as a major contribution by the “coalition of the willing.” Now, as these “major” contributions are being withdrawn the Bush administration ignores them and looks the other way.
So, when I heard the Bush administration’s response to these withdrawals I was not really surprised at what they said. If fact, I am more surprised that Americans are not seeing through this nonsense. Dick Cheney said, "I think they believe that in southern Iraq, that Basra region where they've been most active, we have made significant progress," if referring to the British plan to withdraw troops.
Why does this statement makes logical sense?
Let me get this straight. We are loosing the battle in the streets of Baghdad. I know this because George W Bush told us that when he begged for more troops to be sent to Iraq, to fight in Baghdad. We are also failing in Anbar province. I know this because George W Bush is sending more Americans there to die for the Iraqi people who don’t appreciate the Democracy that we have forced on them. But, the British are pulling their troops from southern Iraq and taking them home because the Sunis don’t live in Southern Iraq.
Let’s imagine for a minute that there is an out of control wild fire approaching two towns. The firemen are split into two teams to protect the two towns. Now, imagine that the wind shifts direction in such a way that the fire is moving away from one of the towns, but it is baring down on the other town twice as fast. Does it make sense to withdraw half the firefighters from the one town and send them home while leaving the other half just in case the wind shifts again? Of course the Shiite people in the south are cooperating with the Shiite lead government. Why wouldn't they? In fact, shouldn’t the British soldiers in Southern Iraq just turn over control to the Iraqis and head north to lend a helping hand?
Unless… Unless Tony Blair has finally come to his senses and he realizes that this is the perfect excuse to leave the unwinnable war to the idiot who started it. Politicians are like that. They realize that they don’t have any support for a loosing idea and they figure out how to make things right again. Unless your name is George W Bush and you just don’t have the ability to learn or change. And, since that happens to be our leader and we don’t have congress with enough backbone to stand up to him we are just doomed to follow the stupid people we voted for right off that big cliff.
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Don't forget what Stephen Colbert said, "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
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