The decider declared during his recent stop in Australia that we were ‘kicking ass’ in Iraq. Given that Bush has a tenuous hold on the English language; he did mistake Australia for Austria and the APEC summit for OPEC, afterall, maybe we should ignore that statement as just another blunder. Our president enjoys that macho, Bruce Willis style tough speak ‘bring ’em on’ and couples it with his cowboy swagger and flight suit codpiece strut. So is he in lala land or just flaring his tail feathers for the pea hens?
While reading an article by Pepe Escobar I was reminded of historian Gabriel Kolko who asserts
since 1950, the US has never lost a battle; but it has never won a war either.
Recently, I wrote about this and one of the many laments of Vietnam veterans has been that their many victories did not translate into success in that war. Bush is right! We are kicking ass! But who’s ass and to what end?
John, my son, confirmed for me that during his tour in Ramadi they never lost a battle or firefight and yet all accounts today maintain that Ramadi is lost – retaken by ‘insurgents’. Forced peace must be an oxymoron. Still we play politics, arrest silent protesters for standing in the Senate gallery while Australians posing as Canadians breach mulitimillion dollar security arrangements with a fake bin Laden
Like Jackson Browne sang “you can count on them to tell us who are enemies are but they are never the ones to fight or to die”
You are right, they don’t fight but they do profit and off the blood of our sons and daughters. Cheney has never been to a single funeral and yet his Haliburton holdings have increased by over 3300%! No, that was not a typo – 3400%! That is one percent per soldier and their families received…. well nothing they wanted.
I agree, themguys, I am reminded of DimSon strutting his “stuff” re: his magnificent cod-piece, on the deck of the aircraft carrier when he pronounced the end of hostilities. What a fratboy. He isn’t smart enough to know how rediculous he looked. Yeah, Chicken S—t, tell that to the families of the fallen, both ours, and “theirs”. But then again, not one of them will be a Bush. They’re all hiding, I think in his codpiece! Yuck!
I would like to remind your readers, most of these “kick-ass”, “bring em on” comments are made by men who have never been in combat. There is a big distinction, those who serve, and those that serve in combat. Isn’t it curious, chicken-hawks like DimSon Bush, swagger around like dime-store cowboys, talking tough on their way to sending other peoples’ children and loved ones to fight and die in their dirty wars. Wake up people, stop sending your children to fight DimSons’ war, when he has 17 military age direct relatives, and you can bet your sons’ life, they will never serve, they just start wars, they don’t fight them, but they sure as hell profit from them.