I don’t believe there was a correct set of solutions. Rather every decision, like a socio-political version of Newton’s Third Law, was bound to produce a negative outcome as well as a positive outcome.

And since I wasn’t going to be among those killed or maimed, I said “Bombs Away.”

We did not have control over Iraq-obviously. Big difference.

Typical denialist kool aid drinker…
“Aww! Damned Arab civilians…kill every last one of them…*assorted noises*…”

Of course, the whole point of waging low intensity COIN warfare is to win over the population, not drive them into the arms of the enemy. Maybe Streiff needs to lay off the Clausewitz and pick up Van Creveld, Professor of military history at the University of Jerusalem. The new theory of war is emerging to replace Clausewitz in the age of militias, terrorists and road warrior cultures.

Here’s the sad legal truth: you can impeach a President for weasiling under oath about a blowjob, where the only victim is … well there is no victim…, however, here’s the dress with the stain, here’s the transcript, bam-bam-bam. cut and clear.

On the other hand you can’t really impeach a President for fucking up the whole country beyound recognition as long as you can show that it was all done “in good faith” that at the time mistakes were made they were not reasonably considered mistakes, and who’s to say what is reasonable in this world, the dichotomy of success and failure makes it impossible to know the unknowable etc. etc. etc.

The same thing in business, you can’t sue a CEO for running a company completely into the ground, while collecting a multimillion paycheck… You can sue if he hired his cousin’s niece to clean the toilets, without disclosing it.

As long as the decisions of this Administration can be cast in some veil of relativity the only danger to them is nerds posting biting comments on a blog…

YOU ARE CRAP. YOU SUCK, YOUR MUSIC IS CRAP. YOU ARE RETARDED, BECAUSE YOUR IDEAS ARE RETARDED, AND YOUR ‘MUSIC’ IS RETARDED.

When are you going to learn that endlessly strumming a few open chords REALLY SUCKS? When are you going to accept that your voice IS SHIT?

Please, quit coming here.

You are a pimp whoring out a 500 pound, STD-infected trainwreck.

You want I should hate document?

Special, special for document! Fi’ dolla, me hate you long time!

Who the fuck is this guy? I’m going to guess that he’s spent time at the Army War College at Carlisle right? No?!? How about in Monterey, at the Navy Post Grad school? Seriously? Wow I would have guessed one of those… Hmmm… He was at least in the military right?

Wait are you telling me that his only experience is reading Tom Clancy? Well I guess that explains a lot…

I keep coming back to this. It’s like some sort of sick fascination, like that website where you can watch Live Coffin Cam.

I mean, I’ve long found that one of the most frustrating part (sic) of discussing the Iraq war IS THE FACT THAT IT’S A COMPLETE OBSCENITY FROM BEGINNING TO END, AND FUCKING MORONS REFUSE TO UNDERSTAND THIS ONE SIMPLE POINT.

Let’s face it: lying to get into a war? Mistake. Attacking a country that was no threat? Mistake. Drumming up feverish support from the populace by demonising an entire religion? Mistake. All of these were ethical, as well as logical, mistakes.

No bid contracts? Mistake. Torture? Definite mistake. Paying bounties to local warlords for prisoners? Mistake. Fallujah? Mistake. False flag ops? Mistake.

I could go on, but you get the point: the whole debacle is just a catalogue of dismal failure. Yes, there were decision points where the fuckup might have been less egregious, but once the big mistake was made, there was no going back: the US was set on the path of righteous mistakednessnessness.

And all of it, pretty well, was blatantly obvious, even to a six-year-old, right at the beginning. Anyone remember the initial revolt of the generals? Well, I suppose that should be the polite demurral of the generals, really. “Don’t do that, Mr President. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and if you attack them you’ll stir up one holy shitstorm. Sir.” “Mr Rumsfeld, only a total dickhead would attempt this thing with so few troops, Secretary Rumsfeld sir,” And the CIA, “That would be a mistake, Mr President. Sir. No, take off the bunny ears, and get your hand out of your pants, sir. The photographers will be here in a minute to see you looking stern and presidential. I think the butt plug should go, too. Or at least be replaced with one that doesn’t sprout a fan of peacock feathers. Sir.”

Just don’t mix them together when you’re on an airplane. Something BAD might happen.

Dr BLT, if your music is as shitty as your grammar, it’s no wonder you’re not welcome around here.

Man, the trolls these days just suck. At least the parody troll is absent, but her/his/its boyfriend wants to stick around for some reason.

I’m Sorry 4 This Song
Dr BLT’s One-man Banned
words and music by Dr BLT (c) 2007
http://www.drblt.net/music/SORRY4.mp3

Being sorry doesn’t necessarily mean your going to give anything up.

I hadn’t thought of that, but it would explain a lot about that crime.

Thom Hartmann wondered if ADD would have been beneficial in a hunter-gatherer society, and said a later study did indeed show a greater incidence of ADD. I think Cain must have had ADD, accidentally bludgeoned Abel in a spastic fit, then, without Abel to steer him back home at dinner time, followed a butterfly to Nod and was never seen again.

So the Nutbars are going to lie low once we’ve announced our departure date, live normal lives and then, when the moon is full, turn into Islamic Nutbars again?

Y’see, what happens is, you put this cat in a box (a warm, fuzzy-lined box, complete with climbing trees and a plenitude of frisky mice to chase), and then you say fuckit, ‘coz those quantum physicists are all crazy anyway, and how can you accuse Da Bush of anything dumb? That’s like, errr…hey, I see mouse!

And I, too, hate document. I tried debating my house, but it wouldn’t stop complaining that I never wash the windows.