Master Dick speaks
This neat clip from 1994 is a great comment about what might happen if the USA had invaded Iraq completely in 1991 and why that would be a really bad idea. The speaker is articulate and seems to have given the option some thought. Not much difference between 1994 and 2003. Except the aboutface that Mr. Cheney performs.
(Note, however, that he did not get it quite right. The Shia, the Sunni, the fact that Iran would become the big powerbroker, or one of the other Arab nations... all that went right by this man, who apparently knows little about the region ... My contention at the time was: take out Saddam Hussein and you'll open the way to some other nationalist leader to take the flag of the Mahdi, as it were... at least Hussein seemed pretty much hated by everyone else, he was therefore a divisive figure in the region... Divide et conquera, heavens, and Blair the Dunce did not get that message? The Brits invaded the planet using "divide and conquer" as a strategy. But no one asked me, in 1991 I was writing travel guides and occasional articles on doggie glasses, because editors were far too timorous to publish real stuff. Meanwhile well-paid pundits spewed hours and reams of nonsense for the masses.... but I digress).
This clip supports Helen Thomas's question as to why the USA went into Iraq (see yesterday's post). But Dick "Darth" Cheney ain't saying. After running the country for eight years -- you don't think the GWB could, do you? He never ran anything in his life -- we suddenly realize: The VP was just as incompetent, thick-skulled, evil and parochial as his understudy. Fifth-rate individuals, who brought in controllable tenth-raters like Chertoff.
The quality of conservatism in the USA can be measured by Pajamas Media's hiring of Joe the Plumber to go report on Israel. The man obviously has the intellect of a pipe wrench. The Huff Post lists a little interview he had with an Israeli reporter.... Does this man have work? Will anyone ever hire him as a plumber even, once the lunatic fringe has dropped him as the liability he is?
I can imagine sort of the following conversation:
Ring, ring,
- Joe the Plumber, may I help you?
- Hi Joe, Marty here, from the General Store. I have a leak in my basement, and don't know where it's coming from.
- Hi Marty, where is the leak?
- In the basement.
- Do you know where it's coming from?
- No, that's why I'm calling.
- So how do you know there's a leak...
and so on...
But under a Palin/McCain administration, he could have been Surgeon General, or head of Homeland Security or even Defense. No 7000-dollar toilet seats with Joe.
Speaking of Sarah Palin. The conservatives have made a delightful film of why Obama got elected, placing the blame on all sorts of things other than their own very silly candidates and McCain's two disastrous decisions: He chose Palin, and he chose to go with some very stupid dirt throwing at a time when even conservative Americans in the Televangelist Belt were beginning to wonder if maybe W. had been speaking to the wrong Jesus. The docu is pure trash, but it did provide Jon Stewart with a great target to practice pie-throwing:
Quick reminder that before November 4, Palin said that the election was in God's hands. So why blame it on the media again, when this all powerful being who created everyone, but hates most of them, decided that Sarah Palin was not going to magically become Frau Präsidentin... Are these people for real? The whole thing was Disneyesque, let us face it, with Elmar Fudd joining Cruella and one of the Beagle Boys as Joe the Plumber. These people must grow up.
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