(lifted from a comment)
by Debs is dead
It seems to me that this whole war on terror thing is moving into
the endgame. It is OVER. Except of course innocent civilians are still
dying. From the viewpoint of using this meme to control populations it
is history though.
This is supported by the news that the US has been meeting secretly
with what until recently they had been calling "Ba’athist dead enders".
With typical lack of insight into other people, BushCo seems
surprised that this agreement to meet didn’t lead to the much promised
but never witnessed sight of Iraqis throwing flowers at US soldiers or
even a quiet thank-you for releasing 24 senior Ba’athists imprisoned
for nearly three years without an iota of evidence of wong-doing. No
instead the ingrates wanted to complain about former US friends the United Iraqi Alliance, who are also good friends of Iran.
The Sunnis joined in complaint with secular parties, in particular
oldest former US friend, Ayad Allawi, one time Iraqi Prime Minister,
and seemed to expect that just because they allowed the election to be
carried out unimpeded by the resistance, that the election should be
fair and not like this:
"In Baghdad in particular, parties accused the
police of supporting the main Shia list, the United Iraqi Alliance, the
largest component in the present government. When preliminary results
for Baghdad gave the Shia list – a coalition of several religious
parties – 58% of the vote, the opposition claimed this proved their
suspicions were justified. Nationally, the Shia list is likely to
retain most of the 140 seats it has in the current parliament."
…
"The row is embarrassing US officials. They were clearly
disappointed at Mr Allawi’s poor result. Now the bitterness over fraud
allegations is poisoning the atmosphere for the "broad-based government
of national unity" which Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador, said on
Tuesday he hoped to see. But they do not want an election rerun since
this would ruin the image of a clean new democracy in Iraq they have
been anxious to cultivate."
These simple-minded crims who have taken over US institutions are
way way out of their depth in dealing with civilisations whose history
goes back thousands of years not a mere 230 odd.
It’s getting so complicated to spin alla this stuff that a hard
working defense secretary doesn’t know whether he’s Arthur or Martha,
who is still an enemy and who is a friend or even whose alive and whose dead. To wit:
"Donald Rumsfeld told journalists en route to
Pakistan that Bin Laden could be hiding somewhere on the
Afghan-Pakistan border."
…"I have trouble believing he is able to operate sufficiently
to be in a position of major command over a worldwide al-Qaeda
operation, but I could be wrong"
this little conundrum will continue to be a thorn in Rummy and co’s
side. No one appears prepared to follow the administration lead and
just not talk about Bin Laden.
They want to know if he’s dead which should be a good thing except it makes arguing continuing the GWOT problematic.
Or they want to know why he hasn’t been killed or captured yet which
is a definiate ‘blackeye’ but does permit continued handouts to
Halliburton, Bechtel and all the other mates.
Hence Rummy being forced to have two bob each way the other day.
OBL isn’t dead he’s on vacation but Al Quaeda is dead…ish. DeadISH
that’s the word Rummy has been looking for! We should be able to use it
everywhere. "The Iraqi insurgency is deadish so we have prevailed but
we need to keep spending money. Someone get on the phone to Websters
and make sure that deadish is listed online by C.O.B. What about that
Brit faggot at Lincoln? Christian Bailey? About time he earned some of
the millions we diverted from Fema to him. Tell him I want deadish in
the Oxford Dictionary immediately".
Hmm I wonder if something smelly may in fact be deadish in the water.