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Capturing
Osama bin Laden won't really help...
by
IseFire
- Wed 04/07/04; 9:29 pm EST
Having Osama bin Laden on the run,
as we do, clearly isn't helping the security situation in Iraq and
isn't halting the global spread of terrorism that has accelerated
since we invaded Iraq. (Just ask the citizens of Madrid.) Osama's
incapable while on the run of coordinating the Iraq uprising of
Shiites and Baathists now engulfing our troops in several Iraqi
cities. Yet the flames advance.
Jennifer Stern, the author of Terror in the Name of God: Why
Religious Militants Kill, a former staff member of the National
Security Council, and a lecturer on terrorism at the Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government, argues in an essay on Salon.com
today that
THE WAR IN IRAQ HAS...
*Split the allies, not the terrorists;
*Turned Iraq into a Mecca for international terrorists;
*Mobilized local Shiite and Salafi jihadist groups that had previously
posed a minimal threat; *Facilitated connections between terrorists
and those with formal military experience in Saddam's army, the
lethal nightmare that the invasion was supposed to have thwarted;
*Increased antipathy everywhere toward the United States--a dangerous
trend terrorists can exploit;
*Recruited "new nihilist minions" throughout the world;
*Distracted us, actually, from the war on terrorism.
ULTIMATELY, "it has strengthened our enemies in ways
that continue to surprise and horrify us."
Thank you, Bush (and the American Media), for so idiotically crafting
this horrible foreign adventure and convincing much of America to
go along for the ride. Metaphorically at least, Bush is still a
dangerous, drunk frat boy driver. And we're all in the front seat
without air bags.
Bush's
ratings slip
by
IseFire
- Mon 04/05/04; 8:19 pm EST
So far my prediction (see below,
"Number of U.S. casualties...") is holding true. American
support for the war is holding steady. A
new study from The Pew Research Center for People
and the Press summarizes,
Public support for war in Iraq has been unaffected by the murders
and desecration of the corpses of American citizens in Falluja.
But the report also shows that Bush's approval rating has slipped.
Here are the numbers.
In March of 1996, Shrub's daddy had an approval rating of 41%, and
he went on to become an ex-president after one term, having been
beaten by William Jefferson Clinton. Club Shrub is eyeing the Frat
Punk-in-Chief's approval rating and sweating very badly.
How
to lose friends and anger
strangers
by
IseFire
- Sun 04/04/04; 3:49 pm EST
BuzzFlash
asks (and answers)-- "Does Anybody Know What the Heck We are
Doing in Iraq Besides MAKING
Enemies? Oh, We Forgot Two Things: Oil and 14 Permanent
U.S. Military Bases." I'd add: Halliburton
contracts.
Number
of U.S. causalties in Iraq tops 600
by
IseFire
- Sun 04/03/04; 2:19 pm EST
I'm going to dare to make a prediction.
We've
lost our 600th soldier in Iraq, and more
U.S. troops will probably be called up to go Over
There, but public support for our occupation won't dip significantly.
Human beings hate to admit that they're wrong. For more
than half of
Americans invading Iraq was A Good Idea. These folks can and will
stomach a lot more blood. You'll even hear the argument that the
blood is evidence of the righteousness of The Cause (still only
vaguely defined) and the desperation of The Enemy (still only vaguely
defined).
Bush-Blair secret pact
by
IseFire
- Sun 04/03/04; 2:19 9m EST
Well, here it is...not surprising but, of course, disturbing,
and the latest revelation about Bush's "Operation: Exploit
9/11." The
Observer got the scoop on the story of a secret pact
between Bush and Blair to go after Iraq.
Condi
by
IseFire
- Thur 04/01/04; 9:58 pm EST
May 1, 2003 photo by Reuters' Kevin Lamarque taken
of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice awaiting Shrub's arrival
stunt on an aircraft carrier.
The author of a blog called The Museum of Stupidity has
posted a fantastic essay on BlogCritic.org about Condi
Rice's blazing falsehoods and misstatements relating
to 9/11 and the 9/11 Commission.
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