PAPER TIGERS and COWARDLY LIONS

grrrrrrr

It’s too easy to blame President BUSH for the debacle in Iraq. Sure, it was his administration that conspired to defraud Americans of the truth about invading the country and yeah, it was his administration that didn’t perform the due diligence concerning how long and taxing the operation would be, but I feel somewhat cheated in blaming just the president. The Senate voted unanimously to send the American troops to Iraq and they have to shoulder some of this blame too. The House of Representatives acted like cheerleaders for the invasion, so they need to be called onto the mat as well. Washington D.C. is filled with cowardly lions.

SADDAM HUSSEIN was just a paper tiger. It was U.S. support that gave him the teeth (and the heart) to fight with Iran. At worst he was an annoyance much the same way that FIDEL CASTRO is. The tiny speck of a nation that is Kuwait yields more petroleum than does Iraq. The massacre of Kurdish peoples?!? What do we care? We will have killed thrice that amount just from all the ground water’s toxic contamination due to our bombs bathed in depleted uranium and white phosphorous. As far as I can tell from the boodoggle that has become Iraq, SADDAM had to use all of his energies to keep that country from imploding. There was nothing in his tank with which to confront the U.S. The administration knew that SADDAM was teetering helplessly so they trumpeted for war invoking the numbers 9-1-1 as if they were part of a numerological seance.

As each day passes and my fellow citizens that work for the armed forces face dangers from an unidentifiable enemy I am angered and ashamed that I did not put these people in a better position by choosing a better leadership set than those currently assembled in the Beltway. I am cramming to understand what I can do to help bring these noble men and women back to their families. Should I buy more gas and petroleum based products or should I cease my consumption completely. Should I protest and march or should I write to my Senator. All my options seem powerless, pointless and paralyzing.

I usually have answers to every question that I posit on this webpage, but I have been shocked and awed by this entire administration into a veritable catatonia. I suppose this is what they wanted from me anyway. For me to recognize that my ideas were futile.

The bad guys have won.

3 Responses to “PAPER TIGERS and COWARDLY LIONS”

  1. Amadeo says:

    The thing is this is the worse example of short sightedness I have seen in a long time. In doing what they want to do, this administration may have put us in a position worse than just screwing over the poor and psuedo-middle class. They may have lined up more enemies than we can deal with and wasted the lives of thousands of soldiers. All the while making any potential recruits wary of joining.

  2. Tai says:

    Recruiting is getting real stealth these days. In Atlanta, for the past 9 months, the ARMY rolls out in these tricked out Hummers, rims and sound systems that would turn the normal head. Guess where they are headed…to the AU Center (Morehouse, Clark Atlanta, Spelman). Recruiters are no longer the white male, crew cut, Gomer Pyle looking jarheads…but these tight t-shirt wearing, muscled up, clean cut, cutie brothers. They appeal to the Black females and males. They flirt and use the “bro man” call; marketing is a bitch.

    You never see those Hummers role to GaTech or over to Emory U….why is that???? Its like shooting fish in a bowl…go straight to the source the gob’ment assume aint paying attention.

    **HEY DALLAS…Am I the only person celebrating the capture of Charles Taylor!!! Screw the SADDAM….that’s the scary dictator!!!!

  3. the_dallas says:

    ^Tai, yes, you are the ONLY person who gives an ‘f’ about Chuck Taylors.

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