Thursday, December 30, 2010

We've replaced this Repressive Regime with Massive Death, Great Expense, and perpetual Civil War, USA! USA!


I guess the Fred Hiatts of the world will always have their fantasies.

Watch Fred jump on a portion of this sentence like the NRA and the last clause of the Second Amendment:


The number of Iraqi civilians killed in violence in Iraq this year fell to its lowest level since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion...


The operative word, of course, is "since", but more importantly to the all-knowing beltway, the second part of the full sentence will be left unacknowledged:

...but the decline is slowing as low-level conflict takes root, a study showed on Thursday.


Let's just shorten this to what it is. The bloodbath we enabled led to the ethnic cleansing we sponsored and we leave (sort of) a damaged people to their perpetual resentments -- and a LOT of weapons. Oh we got rid of that asshole we helped make, for the prettied-up rubble. And it only injured or killed somewhere around a million and cost a few trillion bucks.

So really how dare we castigate Bill Kristol's nearly decade-long victory lap. We're clearly the crazy ones.

(photo via the U.S. Army at flickr.com -- so see your tax dollars at work!)


[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]

4 comments:

Raoul Paste said...

How many Americans know that we've constructed miles and miles of 20ft. high blast walls that divide neighborhoods within Iraqi cities? This was done to suppress the ongoing civil war between factions.

Yep, the Iraqis are so grateful that one of their reporters tried to bean George Bush with a shoe.

Let us now wait for OnA to drop by to deny reality in 3,....2,....1.........

Raoul Paste said...

How many Americans know that we've constructed miles and miles of 20ft. high blast walls that divide neighborhoods within Iraqi cities? This was done to suppress the ongoing civil war between factions.

Yep, the Iraqis are so grateful that one of their reporters tried to bean George Bush with a shoe.

Let us now wait for OnA to drop by to deny reality in 3,....2,....1.........

Raoul Paste said...

How many Americans know that we've constructed miles and miles of 20ft. high blast walls that divide neighborhoods within Iraqi cities? This was done to suppress the ongoing civil war between factions.

Yep, the Iraqis are so grateful that one of their reporters tried to bean George Bush with a shoe.

Let us now wait for OnA to drop by to deny reality in 3,....2,....1.........

pansypoo said...

the iWaq shitpile that will be amerika's qlbatross.

but HEY! georgee got sadam. not his daddy.