The president spoke last night, pleading for patience while his impromptu war in Iraq diverts our attention and treasure, and while his party uses their dysingenuity to frame letters like this one as unpatriotic.
I'd like some patience from my mortgage company. See, I need more time to work between payments because this president's aggressive bungling of US economic policy caused a plunging dollar and a doubling of energy prices, while Chinese voracity for resources are driving every other price higher, even as it cheapens the products Americans no longer make. This president confounds reason.
I'm not surprised he had the temerity to ask for patience, sending 200,000 US soliders and 20,000 contract killers to work in Iraq until his non-plan looks like it's working better than half the time. Think of 2,000 dead soldiers and unnumbered civilian deaths as a late fee on his war mortgage. Think of the invisible Dover flights of casualties as his ashamed and stammering excuses for not paying the bill on time.
His plan: We still have some soldiers left, and China is still covering our expenses, so let's see what happens if I'm allowed to continue this ridiculous money pit project to overpay my friends' companies to the tune of BILLIONS of dollars we raise by borrowing instead of taxing ourselves.
When Rumsfeld argued hard that the chemical weapons agents he sold Saddam when he ran Searle were an imminent threat to our security, he was lying. No patience.
When Wolfowitz argued hard that Iraq would finance its reconstruction and therefore we should destroy it, he knew better than anyone reading this that it was false- dramatically untrue, poppycock, nonsense. When dictatorships fall there is no capacity for self-governance, and after over a decade of sanctions no infrastructure can produce enough revenue to build a whole country. Certainly no patience for that.
When Bush lied about Yellowcake in Niger, when Cheney lied about Saddam cooperating with the rival Al-Quaeda, when Powell was lying to the rest of the world on our behalf, it was not at all like ignoring Japanese planes heading for Pearl Harbor. It was studied manipulation of the information we have access to in an effort to tie us up in an abstract unplannable war against an -ism, in a location where the -ism had nowhere to roost without our help.
No patience. Our opponent over there is killing people we need to defend our country against actual threats.
And what happened to those tens of Billions of Dollars Cheney's colleagues at the military-industrial complex misplaced, overbilled and otherwise stole from us? I want it back with interest.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
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