Slack and Jaw
The HELL these jackasses in the White House weren't hoping for a short war!
You all know as well as I do that Bush flew off to Camp David this weekend hoping to time his return to DC to coincide with the fall of Baghdad!
Bush no doubt had nasty little fantasies of getting off Marine One, clutching his hands over his head in a victory salute and being buried in cheers. Then it's off to the Oval Office to sign off on a ruinous tax cut and order the Senate Democratic caucus to be beheaded like he was Heliogabalus or something.
Instead he came back to U.S. soldiers getting killed and captured plus ominous anonymous complains that the DoD micro-managed the whole thing providing too little armor for the job.
On the other hand, who do these chickenhawk boneheads at the Pentagon think they are kidding?
If they really thought this was gonna be a "tough fight" they'd a lobbied hard against any new tax cuts for fear of losing revenue needed for the war. I mean, Rummy is a nasty vindictive GOP bureaubot, but even he isn't that dumb.
Or maybe they just can't penetrate the President's sunny sense of self delusion...appointed by Ghod to destroy Saddam or some damn thing.
No these guys from the Prez on down thought or perhaps devoutly wished to the exclusion of all reason that Saddam would've adjourned to a nice new bunker and shot himself on Sunday afternoon.
No wonder they are all walking around now with eyes downcast mumbling about "regime change is our goal not necessarily getting Saddam". Which is a prime tip off the cruise missile cannonade didn't kill the bastard! Not so easy to off a serious tyrant with missiles is it Mister President? Bill Clinton knew as much...
No these guys are all red faced and hunkered down now, it's no doubt embarrassing when your whole policy is exposed as little more that prolonged intellectual masturbation.
The Iraqis do have a serious weapon of mass destruction though, it's called a SANDSTORM!
Well...all I can say is, good luck to our armed forces...
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Meanwhile Senator Chris Dodd sounded refreshingly candid and sober on the Don Imus show today. He harped on one important policy note that bears repeating, the deficit for 2003 will top out at 400 Billion smackers....under those fiscal constraints it is likely we will stiff Iraq on reconstruction once regime change has been affected due to the sheer expense of the project.
Let me just add we've done much the same thing to post-Taliban Afganistan...why should the pattern be any different?
Dodd also pointed out that the congressional GOP has gone nicely silent over the dire necessity of a balanced budget amendment to the constitution...Messr's Frist, Lott or Grassley have swallowed manfully and bleated "deficits are good!"
:)
Sick
Demented
Typical...
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