tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399721661977732482.post995212823102658057..comments2023-10-29T04:55:11.344-06:00Comments on Befouled: RequiemSnaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11029751181796561620noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399721661977732482.post-53587054982213491302007-07-24T08:09:00.000-06:002007-07-24T08:09:00.000-06:00Well, like the engineers say, when you're in a hol...Well, like the engineers say, when you're in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.<BR/><BR/>It's a testament to the olympic levels of blindness and incompetence inherent in the neocons and Bush that their policy decisions have left us with no good choices, and almost nothing but abhorrent ones.<BR/><BR/>The first step towards ANYTHING is to stop pissing on Iraq. After that, we MAY have a chance to regroup, repair the military and our soldiers, and use them to help address horrors like Darfur.<BR/><BR/>But Bush and Cheney would rather just bomb somebody else with brown people and oil.<BR/><BR/>Remember: Cheney First.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399721661977732482.post-67603449887596287662007-07-23T23:24:00.000-06:002007-07-23T23:24:00.000-06:00Thank you Billy for your thoughtful comment.What I...Thank you Billy for your thoughtful comment.<BR/><BR/>What I can't resolve is our moral responsibility to prevent bloodshed caused in large part by our failed foreign policies. In Darfur, for example, horrific as it is, we don't have blood on our hands in the same way we do in Baghdad. I wish I knew which of all the failures available to us would be the least worst.Snaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11029751181796561620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399721661977732482.post-29338133711346656042007-07-23T17:40:00.000-06:002007-07-23T17:40:00.000-06:00Wow, Billy P. has his typing on today.Ditto Jennif...Wow, Billy P. has his typing on today.<BR/><BR/>Ditto Jennifer.Adorable Girlfriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00980315608634758758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399721661977732482.post-60138037340747877012007-07-23T15:40:00.000-06:002007-07-23T15:40:00.000-06:00What he said.What he said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6399721661977732482.post-30526527999488635022007-07-23T15:13:00.000-06:002007-07-23T15:13:00.000-06:00Nice pickup Snag.There is no way that pulling out ...Nice pickup Snag.<BR/><BR/>There is no way that pulling out of Iraq can be called a failure, because success in Iraq was never defined; so how can you define failure?<BR/><BR/>Failure is allowing ANY number of Americans to die on the battlefield of a foreign country for ill-considered aggressive military actions of men who never saw combat.<BR/><BR/>Failure is allowing men who never saw combat to lie our way into attacking a country that posed no threat to America.<BR/><BR/>Failure is not removing these men from public life and preventing them from having the power to make life and death decisions for other people, ever again.<BR/><BR/>Failure is allowing greed- and power- hungry men to subvert and ignore the Constitution while distracting the People with bright colors and loud noises, and hiding the most egregiously criminal of their actions behind a wall of secrecy that Nixon only dreamed of.<BR/><BR/>We have already Failed. <BR/><BR/>Failed at the Iraq war because there is no way to win.<BR/><BR/>Failed at Democracy because we allowed people like George Bush and Dick Cheney to take over; so, so easily, and we did not rise up in righteous anger at the coup.<BR/><BR/>Failed at humanity because these men used legalistic perversions and popular movies to falsify the horrors of war and create a false enemy, then legalized torture and illegal internment, and we did not cry out in horror and rage.<BR/><BR/>We have already Failed; removing our troops from Iraq will do nothing.<BR/><BR/>Nothing, that is, except prevent any more of them from dying.<BR/><BR/>Now tell every family member of every soldier serving overseas just WHY, again, they can't come home?zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.com