Obviously, I am not a great fool…you would have counted on it! So I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
From the Huffington Post, a link to a New York Times article with the waspishly hopeful headline Senior Officer in Iraq: American Enterprise in Iraq ‘Could Still Fail’. Would I be in error in observing the following maxim?
Where there is the suggestion of American foreign policy failure, there you will also find the stifled smiles of blue staters.
I realized last night that I’m really not a good blogger, in the sense of maintaining a cohesive, consistent viewpoint. I began Fringe as an outlet for my political rage (just kidding, sort of) but I’ve moved almost completely out of sync with posting politics here. For some reason, I am more comfortable keeping politics out of sight for a while. Even when I get the urge to say something, I’m reminded of the paltry fact that someone else out there has probably said the same thing, only better.
It does piss me off that blogs like the Hooverington Post don’t offer comments. I’d like to have words with the cretin who continues to mislead the public by insisting on the myth of 100,000+ dead Iraqi civilians. Wasn’t the Lancet report debunked so much it had stretch marks?
How about this golden newbie?

Newsweek relied on faulty intelligence to write a magazine article. George W. Bush relied on faulty intelligence to start a war which has cost over $200 billion, and which has taken the lives of over 1600 Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis.
Here’s the difference. Newsweek didn’t know its intelligence was phony. And Newsweek apologized.

Wait. Fault or phony, which is it? There is a difference, you know. And even if Newsweek didn’t know its intelligence was phony, they sure rushed to put that information out, which has helped splinter relations with Afghanistan (most Iraqis seem less affected by the phony allegations of Koran flushing). How long did Newsweek wait to post their uncorroborated source material? A week? That’s pretty generous, considering how little vetting that info actually received. My bet’s on the hour. Rush that sucker, it further paints a picture of the decadent corruption of the American military!
Here’s the real difference: Bush supplied more than faulty intelligence for adequate reasons to go to war. And he waited a year and a half after 9/11 to give other options a chance. Given the good faith Bush supplied the UN in offering that corrupt world governing body a chance to actually follow its mandate, and knowing now how nearly every country who opposed invasion had their hands stuck so far up Saddam’s coffers they came out looking guilded, it’s a stretch to compare a shoddy reporting job with a legitimate attempt at restructuring the Middle East through a process of war, diplomacy, and installation of infant democracy. Big stretch.
The author of that post better get with the party line there at the Hufflepuff Post regarding civilian dead. It’s 100,000+, you dolt! Not tens of thousands!
And I’ll be waiting in line tonight for the big event. You know the one. Revenge of the Sith, or How I Learned to Cause Fanboys and Nerds to Stop Living and Prostrate Themselves At the Throne of the Almighty George. I think that second part is an unofficial title. I have criticized Lucas before, even offering some suggestions for Episode Three titles. But I can be gracious when I need to be. I will admit to being excited, though not ecstatic, at the prospect of this dark third. Maybe it’ll be good. Maybe it’ll blow my low expectations into orbit. Maybe, just maybe, Jar Jar will die.
And maybe Shooter5 is reading this now. If so…you were right.