Somebody Needs His Ass Whupped!
Mike Thompson Detroit Free Press March 26, 2006
What ever happened to the Marshal Plan? I guess the world is a lot different since 9/11. How can we expect the Iraqi people to re-build their entire infra-structure while in the midst of a civil war, (yeah, I know, it's only a slight factional disagreement), and pay for it all? Oh, yeah. Oil revenues! You see, they'll be paying for it with their only natural resource we're interested in, while their other natural resource, their youth of both sexes, either blow themselves up in order to kill as many innocents as possible in their factional disagreement, or become statistics in our reports on collateral damage. But the administration isn't interested in that natural resource. In fact, if it dried up tomorrow, I'm sure no one in the White House or Pentagon would lose any sleep over it.
Did we re-build Hanoi? Nah! We were the losers! How could the communists hold their heads up during party functions if they'd demanded war reparations? Besides, it allowed them to appeal for sympathy from the rest of the world while we licked our wounds and faced high inflation without having to pay war reparations. What the hell happened?!
What's gonna happen? I dunno. All I can see is the Dems are going to win big because of the war and the economy and the environment. They're going to take their mandate and run with it, like a pair of scissors, and trip over their own egos, stabbing themselves in the heads. Of course, I could be wrong. It all depends on who gets elected, and the advisors they get. However, when 2008 comes around, watch out. There is going to be some definate backlash from the immediate turn of direction the country will take when that happens, so whom-ever does the best job of seeming Presidential in the next two years will have to be careful to only align them-selves with the changes that do the most good for the most VOTERS, and not just the most democrats. Let's face it. Had the rank and file dems gotten off their asses when it mattered, W'd be gone now. But then, we'd be stuck with Kerry, and he was simply the wrong man for the job. Not to say he's a bad man, just not the right man. But, that's another story altogether.
So who will re-build Iraq? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to choose where your tax dollars go? I know I'd like to be able to decide whether they go for bombs or feeding kids, but let's be realistic. I mean, this blog does have REALITY in the title. It's beginning to look like W is just now being told by somebody in his usually screwed up administration that there's something wrong with the treasury. That somehow or other, someone's going to have to come up with a whole lotta money, and he's starting to feel like his Daddy did after mouthing off about reading his lips, and then having to eat his words. There may not be any NEW TAXES, but there'll most certainly have to be NO NEW TAX CUTS. Well, that's just positively UNAMERICAN! Can you imagine all those Mom & Pop conglomerates out there that'll have to pony up their fair share of the load, and pass on the cost to their employees? Oh, let's not forget their customers too, unless sales begin to take a nose-dive and they have to lay people off in order to lower them again. Heaven forbid passing the cost on to the stock holders. At least not the ones with preferred stock.
Now would be a good time to sell out to Haliburton. Globalization is a fact! All those people who've been screaming about how the ONE WORLDERS were ruining this country didn't bother to look past the tie-dyed t-shirts and muu-muus to the boardrooms where the huge multi-nationals were deciding that for everyone already. It's the multi-nationals that will inherit the Earth, not the meek. Sure, nationalism is still going strong at the moment, but when these companies become truly huge, we'll see people start to cheer on their employers first, and their neighborhoods last.
Big Brother, Where Art Thou? Have you noticed lately how surveilance is ever-present? Phone calls; e-mails; libraries; GOOGLE! are all up for grabs now. Well, it's only 20 years late, but we've been expecting it, and now that it's here, we should be thankful, because once we take care of our perceived enemies, and we're all under one roof, so-to-speak, we people who live in the geographical area once known as the U.S; won't be stuck with the full bill all the time. But then, what price freedom?
posted by Bob at 8:13 PM
2 Comments:
Hey you...Remember when you say "we" lost the war in Vietnam, you can't include the troops in that statement. We did everything we were asked to do, for the most part believed in what we were doing, and did it very well. The other components who actually did lose the war were the Washington politicians, first and foremost LBJ, the American media, and the people themselves who were so busy making money, dodging the draft, and generally acting as if they didn't know there was a war going on that their biggest contribution was complaining about the violence of the war appearing on the TV news too often during the dinner hour. Those folks deserved the bad leaders they got, the post-war inflation they were hammered with, and the mediocrity that has filled their lives since. Oh yeah, they also deserve all the spoiled, materialistic brats they raised and named after planets, favorite drugs, and Cuban revolutionaries. Other than that, your post is right on the money!
Thanks for your comments, anonymous, but you're a liar! I've looked under this post several times, even going as far as to shine a light under there, and I didn't find any money! Your comment sparked my word recognition program, and since I'm broke right now, it woke me up in the middle of the night, only to find myself feeling like a kid waking up the day after losing a tooth only to find nothing under his pillow. I'm going to lose sleep now, worrying about whether or not someone's gotten in here without my knowledge and stole the money out from under MY post! If it comes to that, I'm going to have to actually SPEND money on a burgular alarm. So, not only will I have lost the money under my post, but also the money for the alarm. I'm sick to my stomach!
As for who lost the war, let's just say that the South Vietnamese lost the war. After all, we were there to HELP them, not to fight the whole war for them. True, the American troops did the best they could given the circumstances, and even though most of those who died there, or were lucky enough to make it back, didn't vote for the leaders who sent them there, the leaders who did send them, didn't fare well. One was assassinated; another was hounded out of office without a second term, and his successor actually had to resign, (the reason for which was totally unrelated to the war itself, but was related to the distrust of the government that citizens developed after the war), but all of them had to live with the after effects of the war. Unfortunately, the current leaders in Washington can't seem to remember back that far. Maybe their memories have been redacted too.
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