The Repugs think you're really fucking stupid
(and if you support them or their Vietraq War, then you are)
Do you remember how the members of the Bush regime sold Americans on the Vietraq War?
I do:
We were just going to "liberate" the poor Iraqis from Saddam Hussein. That was it. The Iraqis would greet our troops as liberators. And Iraqi oil revenues would pay for the whole thing. No problem. It would be a cakewalk.
That's what the members of the Bush regime told us in 2002 and early 2003.
Now, we have a civil war in Iraq with no end in sight and the United States now has the largest federal budget deficit in U.S. history, thanks in large part to the billions and billions of taxpayers' dollars from the U.S. treasury that are being funneled to Dick Cheney's Halliburton and to other war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp via the Vietraq War.
Iraqi oil isn't paying for the Vietraq War -- American taxpayers are paying for it, billions and billions of dollars for it, while the Repugnicans in Washington continue to slash social spending. Our tax dollars aren't going to health care, education, environmental preservation, job creation and the like -- they're going to the likes of Halliburton.
Iraqis are still blowing shit up -- and each other up -- right and left. Kidnappings, assassinations and murders continue unabated in Iraq. U.S. troops, who are hated and who are seen as occupiers (um, because they are) -- not as "liberators" -- continue to die.
In short, nothing's changing in Iraq (but Halliburton's profits continue to grow; don't worry about them -- they're making a killing).
But the Repugnican Party isn't about to admit that its Vietraq War has been a huge fucking mistake.
So the Repugnicans are putting a new twist on the Bush regime's reprehensible conflation of 9/11 and Iraq: They're acting like Iraq attacked the United States on 9/11, and that's why the U.S. military is in Iraq. Therefore, their "argument" is, those who oppose the Vietraq War want to "cut and run" and "surrender."
It couldn't be that the Vietraq War has been one of the United States' greatest military mistakes ever, if not the greatest U.S. military mistake ever.
I got this e-mail from the Repugnican National Committee yesterday (yes, I'm on the enemy's e-mail list):
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Dear Robert,
When it comes to leading Democrats and Iraq, we've seen it all. First, they voted for the war; then they claimed it was a lie. Some Democrats have called for immediate withdrawal, others call for a phased withdrawal, and others are saying they won't have a position until it's "the right time". Now, some of the democrat leaders have taken their most extreme and dangerous position yet; predicting the defeat of our troops in Iraq. 
Watch the new web video, "Retreat and Defeat," that exposes this cut-and-run strategy for what it is.
Watch Howard Dean saying that we won't win in Iraq, and John Kerry talking about our troops "terrorizing" children in the dead of night. Think about the message this sends to our troops; that we will be intimidated by terrorists and assassins, and that we walk away from their mission.
Our troops are watching. America is watching. Send these Democrats the message that surrender is not an option; and that we stand together with our troops for victory in Iraq.
Sincerely,
Ken Mehlman
Chairman, Republican National Committee
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The Repugs are still trying to rewrite history, a la George Orwell's 1984.
First of all, before their March 2003 invasion of Iraq against the wishes of the United Nations and most of the world, the members of the Bush regime lied through their fangs about Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction and the threat that Iraq posed to its neighbors and even to the United States. They even ominously warned that "the smoking gun" might manifest itself as "a mushroom cloud." Iraq had or was on the verge of having nukes, they claimed.
You can't fucking lie in order to get someone to go along with your plans -- as the members of the Bush regime lied to the Democratic lawmakers and to the world, before March 2003, about the actual threat that Iraq posed -- and then, when it becomes apparent that you fucking lied and that your plan is going to shit, blame those you to lied for the huge fucking mess that you have created, as the Repugnicans are trying to do to the Democrats. (Well, you can't unless you're a Repugnican, because Repugnicans are fucking cowards -- cowards never admit their mistakes, much more take responsibility for them -- and because Repugnicans have no ethics or sense of decency whatsofuckingever.)
And in the e-mail above from Repugnican National Committee Chair Ken Mehlman, who is a big ol' closet case, the Repugs use another tactic that they've been using for some time now: Attempting to morph legitimate criticism of the Bush regime's bungling of the Vietraq War into an attack on our troops: "Think about the message this sends to our troops," whines Mehlman, who is a true faggot.*
That the members of the Bush regime try to hide behind our troops instead of facing valid criticism, that they fucking use our troops, politically, as human shields, shows you who really gives a fuck about our troops -- oh, not to mention the fact that more than 2,140 U.S. troops have died thus far for the Bush regime's bold-faced lies about Iraq and for the war profiteering of the Bush regime's corporate cronies.
Oh, yeah -- the Repugnicans really wuv our troops.
Those Satanic Democrats, however, hate our troops -- because they want our troops out of the clusterfuck that is Iraq. They don't want any more of our troops -- most of whom look like they just graduated from high school -- dying for the Bush regime's fucking pack of lies that have benefited only war profiteers. Those bad Democrats! Bad! Bad! Bad!
The Repugnicans succeed only because a certain number of Americans are dumbfucks who believe that the Repugnicans really have their (and our troops') best interests at heart. There are plenty of Americans who can't -- or won't -- see the Vietraq War for what it is: A war that was fabricated for the purposes of war profiteering. You can't war profiteer without a war; Dick Cheney's Halliburton and other war-profiteering corporations wanted a war, and the Bush regime delivered to them a war.
Still, while we should never underestimate the stupidity of a huge chunk of the American population, I don't think that the "cut and run," "retreat and defeat" rhetoric on the part of the Repugnicans is going to work very well outside of the Repugnican Party's base of wingnuts who are lost fucking causes anyway.
A good chunk of the American population remember that this never was supposed to be a war against the people of Iraq, but that this was supposed to be about the "liberation" of the people of Iraq.
And these Americans, these true Americans -- true Americans because they have at least a general idea of what's really going on in their nation and what their "leaders" are really doing -- are not so dim as to not have noticed that, more than two years and eight months after the Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Iraq remains a huge fucking mess.
The Repugnicans' attacking the Democrats instead of ackowledging the quagmire that they created in Iraq is not going to solve the quagmire in Iraq.
The majority of Americans want an end to the quagmire in Iraq. So look for the Repugnicans to lose the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2006. (Maybe the U.S. Senate, too, but at least the House of Representatives.)
And, as usual, it will be a Democratic president who will have to clean up George W. Bush's many messes, foreign and domestic, just as Bill Clinton had to clean up the first George Bush's many messes.
I just hope that Americans remember, the next time that they're tempted to elect a Repugnican president (OK, so Gee Dubya was never elected), that as of late it's been the Repugnicans who have created the messes and the Democrats who have cleaned them up.
If enough Americans remember that, perhaps the Repugnican Party will die the death that it deserved to die a long, long time ago -- the death that it might be dying, the death I hope that it is dying, right now.
*A "faggot," in my own personal vocabulary, is a contemptible gay man, a gay man who lies for personal gain and who does things like sell his own people out, such as how Mehlman helped Bush win "re"-election by bashing gay men and lesbians. A faggot is someone whom I'd like to strangle. Ken Mehlman is a faggot.
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