This got too big for a comment in open thread and so I will throw this rant in a diary.
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I watched some of the Pentagon press briefing today on CSpam and I started to wonder what year it was.
There is progress in Iraq and yet they have no idea how much longer it will take. Some investigations are ongoing. The Iraqis will take over security soon. 15 of the provinces are comparatively calm.
The exact same bullshit I have heard for years now. The questions and answers could have been a god damn rerun. That is why the Americans are bored and tired of Bush. He has become boring. The pills they have been given him to fight depression have taken away some of the glamour.
Israel had 2 soldiers kidnapped and they invade and bomb another country and all that is exciting. We have soldiers killed in Iraq and don't get see or hear about any acts of revenge for those killings. We have already invaded and occupied the country and we don't know how to find the terrorists in it. We need to get the phones working in Iraq so the NSA can listen in about suicide bomber plans. Just like we wired tapped the Greek government phones and cell phones before the Olympics.
Iran will give us a chance to see some more of those cool guided missiles ramming into buildings. It is better than a video game. Take that you Islamicfacist friend of Osama. hehehe God only wants Christians and Jews to have atomic weapons.
If we don't get to see Americans doing violence to other folks in Iraq, then we should have just kidnapped Saddam like we did the President of Panama and not stayed around afterwards to be targets for suicide bombers.
The military should spend more on propaganda here at home. We should see footage of Marines raiding the house of a suspected insurgent. Show us an Army helicopter strafing a road and neighborhood full of terrorists.
Put a live cam where we can watch a Baghdad road checkpoint live. Make the war fun and interesting so we can support it.
Atomic weapons are always fun scary. It worked with Iraq even though Bush knew it was a lie and yet said better safe than sorry where the smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud.
Iran is worker harder and faster to get an atomic weapon? Save us Dear Leader. Protect us oh Great Decider. Woe is me. They might use a nuclear device against my local Wal-Mart and then all is lost. Do what you need to do. We have given you carte blanche to make this a super, fun, exciting war. More of those guided missiles please. Tactical nuclear weapons are ok too.
On second thought. Have some courage and integrity and resign your office President Bush, you lying, disgusting, murdering, twisted mean squanderer you.