I had an ugly idea on my walk into work today.
A lot of people, myself included, have made a hullabaloo about Mr. Bush's "victory strut" in his flight suit on the USS Lincoln with the "Mission Accomplished" banner. "How can you child molesting Nazi rat bastard republicans say the mission's accomplished when there's still fighting in Iraq?," we say. "Hey you child molesting rat bastard nazi thieves, US troops are getting killed! that's no mission accomplished."
Ahh, but friends, to the Bush people and the neo-conservatives, the mission IS accomplished. The mission was to get us into Iraq for keeps. Getting into Iraq WAS the mission. As Wolfowitz said last week, "I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction."
This belief is supported by Josh Marshall's latest talking points memo: today's post (July 27) shows a collection of quotes in which US servicemen are tacitly characterized as bait:
Being based in Iraq helps us not only because of actual bases; but because the American presence there diverts terrorist attention away from elsewhere. By confronting them directly in Iraq, we get to engage them in a military setting that plays to our strengths rather than to theirs'. Continued conflict in Iraq, in other words, needn't always be bad news. It may be a sign that we are drawing the terrorists out of the woodwork and tackling them in the open.
"Bring Them On"
Andrew Sullivan
andrewsullivan.com
July 3rd, 2003
Separately, Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander of coalition ground forces, told CNN that "we still have a long way to go" before eliminating resistance.
Iraq had become "a terrorist magnet," drawing some anti-American extremists from abroad to "a target of opportunity."
"But this," General Sanchez added, "is exactly where we want to fight them."
"U.S. Must Act on 'Murky' Data to Prevent Terror, Wolfowitz Says"
International Herald Tribune
July 27th, 2003
(credited to Mr. Marshall's fine page)
update!! A conservative site also backs this up. Our servicemen are bait.
I don't much like the sound of that...
A lot of people, myself included, have made a hullabaloo about Mr. Bush's "victory strut" in his flight suit on the USS Lincoln with the "Mission Accomplished" banner. "How can you child molesting Nazi rat bastard republicans say the mission's accomplished when there's still fighting in Iraq?," we say. "Hey you child molesting rat bastard nazi thieves, US troops are getting killed! that's no mission accomplished."
Ahh, but friends, to the Bush people and the neo-conservatives, the mission IS accomplished. The mission was to get us into Iraq for keeps. Getting into Iraq WAS the mission. As Wolfowitz said last week, "I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction."
This belief is supported by Josh Marshall's latest talking points memo: today's post (July 27) shows a collection of quotes in which US servicemen are tacitly characterized as bait:
Being based in Iraq helps us not only because of actual bases; but because the American presence there diverts terrorist attention away from elsewhere. By confronting them directly in Iraq, we get to engage them in a military setting that plays to our strengths rather than to theirs'. Continued conflict in Iraq, in other words, needn't always be bad news. It may be a sign that we are drawing the terrorists out of the woodwork and tackling them in the open.
"Bring Them On"
Andrew Sullivan
andrewsullivan.com
July 3rd, 2003
Separately, Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, commander of coalition ground forces, told CNN that "we still have a long way to go" before eliminating resistance.
Iraq had become "a terrorist magnet," drawing some anti-American extremists from abroad to "a target of opportunity."
"But this," General Sanchez added, "is exactly where we want to fight them."
"U.S. Must Act on 'Murky' Data to Prevent Terror, Wolfowitz Says"
International Herald Tribune
July 27th, 2003
(credited to Mr. Marshall's fine page)
update!! A conservative site also backs this up. Our servicemen are bait.
I don't much like the sound of that...
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