These were the instructions of Tony Snow at a White House press conference yesterday. No shit Tony. Yeah the problem we have with the war is unrealistic expectations. We are SO optimistic about Iraq that we think once the surge is implemented Iraq is going to turn into the land of OZ. When everything doesn’t go perfectly we are shocked, and then we overreact. Everything has gone so well in the past, we just have no idea how even the slightest thing could go wrong. We really don’t understand how difficult it is over there. We really have no idea what an unmitigated disaster the area has become. Tony Snow, this has been said before, but you are an idiot.
Join me in Oz below the fold.
It is this administration that thought Iraq would be like the land of OZ. Our troops were supposed to glide down the yellow brick road to Baghdad and remove the wicked witch and then all the little munchkins would great us as liberators. Well, we got down the yellow brick road and removed the big bad witch. Ding Dong the witch is dead hurray! Only problem is now different factions in munchkin land, (that we somehow ignored the existence of) are locked in a power struggle to see who will be the dominant force in the new munchkin land government. The yellow bricks have been torn to pieces by roadside bombs, and no one has any idea what direction we are headed in. If you do go to our emerald city, the green zone, no one has answers there either. There is no wizard, that was supposed to be the war czar, but no one wanted the job.
Meanwhile the man behind the curtain isn’t really hiding it all. He sits in the oval office smiling and laughing while hundreds of our soldiers and Iraqis die every day. So don’t worry Tony. I’m pretty sure the comparison of Iraq to the land of OZ never even crossed our minds. I just wish the administration had thought the same way. (Or thought at all.)
There is one comparison to the Land of Oz I do like. I hope congress forces some ruby slippers over to our troops very soon.
Cross posted at Diatribune