Snippets of Insanity
Yesterday’s CNN headline proclaimed the confirmed killing of "a Most Wanted Terrorist," Mushin Musa Matwali Atwah, who made the top ten in connection with the 1988 US Embassy bombing. And we didn’t get him, the Pakistan military did. Eight years and untold casualties later, this guy was "gotten" by happenstance. I’m waiting for the first wingnut to proclaim this a Bush victory…
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Remember America’s War on Drugs? This was our first shot at pre-emptive warfare, and it resulted in a tighter, leaner black market and higher profits for those willing to thumb their capitalistic thumbs at Uncle Sam. But the war rages on in Mexico where, the NY Times reports, 1700 have been killed this year. Perhaps if we make the stuff legal and regulate it to the hilt and tax the bejeezus out of it, life would be saves. But, as they are brown people, our compassionate conservatives are conserving their compassion on the issue.
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Meanwhile, Danny Harold Rolling, the Gainesville, Florida serial killer who killed five students, sang a hymn after being injected on Death Row. Witnesses said he penned the words himself. That should clear his way to the Pearly Gates….
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Every tropical storm is getting star treatment this year as we await the nest "big one." It’s nice that they are given their fifteen minutes of fame, even though "climate change" is a myth.
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And in the Land of Nod, astride the Potomac River somewhere, the Grand Poobah of Mass Destruction talks out of both sides of his mouth near simultaneously:
"I know many Americans are not satisfied with the situation in Iraq," he said in a lengthy statement before taking questions. "I’m not satisfied either." October has been the deadliest month this year for American forces, and the war soon will have lasted longer than U.S. involvement in World War II.
"The events of the past month have been a serious concern to me and a serious concern to the American people," the president said.
Bush said the United States was changing tactics to deal with circumstances in Iraq but shouldn’t change the overall direction of the war.
"Absolutely we’re winning," the president asserted.
If this is what winning looks like, I’m disappointed, too. But all that needs to taken with a pillar of salt, as it is October Surprise time, and the Ministry of Propaganda is in full swing, trying for a three-peat. While we’re asking for the improbable, lets create arbitrary "benchmarks for progress" for the Iraqi puppet government to fail. Looks like our embattled administration is taking a long, banking curve into a reversal of all the spin we’ve been force fed over the past four years. Or they might just be hedging their bets in case the Dems actually pull of their planned coup.