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Monday, April 14, 2003

No Comment The US says it has no plans to remove the debris left over from depleted uranium (DU) weapons it is using in Iraq. It says no clean-up is needed, because research shows DU has no long-term effects. It says a 1990 study suggesting health risks to local people and veterans is out of date. A United Nations study found DU contaminating air and water seven years after it was used. Like I said, no comment...no comment here, no-sir-ree, my mind is a blank slate, information passes in and passes out, like my mind itself. 8:07:17 PM    comment []

"one of the most Hiroshima, one on the most horrendous governments..." 1:17:40 AM    comment []

Why do you think they call it the Middle East? Remember the middle ages? Neither do I, but the closest you’ll see is a horde of warlords chopping off heads with swords. Justice is being tied up in a gunnysack and hurled off the tallest building in town, or stoned to death, buried to the neck, in the town square. Democracy? You open up a can of compassionate conservatism on ‘em and they pick through the garbage like rats. Mesopotamia may be the cradle of civilization, but the baby was stillborn. They knew better than to become civilized and they still do. Smart warlords will suck up to the new big cheese, maybe that Chalabi guy, whose name sounds like Chablis to me and leaves a similar bad taste in my mouth. They will suck up to him and cement their tribal boundaries and they will knife him in the back the minute it is turned, because it is the Middle East. They can pump money out of the ground, so no one has incentive to industrialize. Iraq is not a country, it is a post-Ottoman Limey wet dream, created by surveyors to contain the insanity within defined borders, a nicely-shaped Victorian crumpet with an egg wash so it won’t flake when dunked in tea. No democracy will ever grow there - paraphrasing Sam Kinison, Democracy does not grow in sand. It’s not just oil and water, Kurds, Shiites, Sunni, and Baathists; it’s subcultures within subcultures, Hatfields and McCoys, AK-47s and RPGs, free money from oil, oil enough to burn. Freedom there is the right to loot and steal, to kill the neighbor who pissed you off under cover of the fog of war. Iraq is a cesspool with a thin rainbow sheen of oil on top. Underneath, it has always stunk and always will. Why did we dive into a cesspool? Why are we happy about it? 12:48:34 AM    comment []