January 10, 2007

  • For years, there have been some dumbass Republicans (as if there is another kind of Republican).........ok, just about all Republicans have been saying that the media has a "liberal bias", in specific, they point out CNN. Well, recently it looks like CNN has it out for DEMOCRAT Barrack Obama. They have done 3 things recently that makes me think that CNN is not liberal at all. Just listen to what they have done to Obama recently. They had a story on Osama Bin Laden and as they were showing a video of Bin Laden, they had the words "Where's Obama?" on the screen. They also ran a story comparing Bin Laden to the president of Iran because of how they both dress, wearing a suit without a tie. They also pointed out that Obama's middle name is Hussain. I mean, what the fuck? At first, I thought the "Where's Obama?" thing was an honest mistake, but now, I think they probably did it on purpose. I just can't figure out why they would want to harm his chances of running and winning the White House. Honestly, who give a shit what his name is or what he wears. The only question, is, will he make a good president?

    So, after nearly 4 years, more than 50,000 people dead, including over 3000 Americans, and more than $357 BILLION spent, Bush has finally felt that it is time to come up with a strategy for the war in Iraq. Really, can you blame him for taking such a long time? After all, what would he know about fighting a war, I'm sure the first year and a half he probably had to get used to being at war. After that, he had to take a vacation, which took another 4 months.  Next, he had to be more focused on getting reelected. After somehow managing to fool enough people into fraudingly voting for him, he had to take a vacation, lying to people for 10 months can be exhausting. After that, he had to concentrate on learning new words that he didn't have to use in his first terms, you know, words like hurricane, Supreme Court Justice, and Borat. Right after that, it was vacation time. Then when he started to think about maybe having a strategy, he finally realized that there was a FEMA. For the next 6 months after that, he had to try to understand what FEMA does. Then he had to take a vacation, because just learning what the F in FEMA stands for really was too much for him. After that vacation, he needed another different vacation from his previous vacation, after all, clearing brush and trying to hide from Dick Channey hunting can be mentally draining, especially when your brain power is being zapped due to thinking about Green Acres re runs. Then came the mid term elections and he had to campaign for Republicans running for Congress. What is so exhausting about this is that he had to chase these candidates around since so many of them were trying everything they could to distance themselves from him and avoid being seeing with him in public. This, of course, required another vacation. Then the Iraq commission came back with their suggestions. He needed to take some time to not read the report and come up with excuses to ignore what they said, so he could only do that with another vacation. And that is where we are now. So, you can see why he took such a long time to actually come up with a plan to win in Iraq. Poor guy. This presimedential stuff is tough work, he sure can use another vacation.

    Now, I'm not claiming that I have an easy answer for Iraq. My answer is that we should not have been there to begin with. I strongly feel that Bush not only should be removed from office, but also put in jail. With that out of the way, I think we are in a situation in which we are damned if we do and damned if we dont. No, check that.............fucked royally if we do, fucked royally if we don't. Realistically, how can we stay?  Then again, we come in there, totally destroy this country and I feel that we kind of are obligated to fix things, however, if we leave the country will never last as a democracy.. That being said, there comes a point when one option is worse than the other option. I think staying is the worst option for America. In addition to all the death and destruction that is happening, this war is costing us WAY to much money, more than we can even come close to affording. Just think what we could have done with that money. Now, I'm not saying we should up and leave, but we probably should start to come up with a way and an option to leave. This would involve something Bush refuses to do, and that is talk to Iraq's neighbors and surrounding countries. There are lots of people fleeing Iraq and they are going to these countries, because of this, they have a vested interest in this war ending and peace (if even possible) coming to Iraq. We also need the help of the UN and other major countries. After all, we have helped  other countries time and time again and have always been there, now we are in need. We need the help to rebuild Iraq so that it can stand on its own. As great and powerful as we are, we will never be able to do this on our own. From everything I have read and heard, increasing troop levels is not going to help end the violence . Have we not learned anything from Vietnam? Also, the focus should be on Bin Laden, where it should have been all along. Its time to go after him again. Although I believe that finding his is a challenge, it can be done. Now, I don't know if any of what I said makes sense or would even work. However, not only did I not get us into this mess, I'm also not a member of the government elected and being paid to get us out of this mess.