Saddam Hussein is dead. His sons are dead. Chemical Ali is dead. Thousands of soldiers from the Medina, Nebekenezer and the Free Mumia divisions are dead. The oil wells, pipelines and terminals are secure. The Patriot missles work. The Iraqis cannot kill our personnel without deception, ambush and POW execution. The American people understand the enormity of the stakes. We will find Weapons of Mass Destruction, we will be greeted by a joyful Iraqi liberated people, we will act humanely yet decisively in War and in the return of Iraqi land and resource to the Iraqi people. That's what we do.
What exists today, IMO, is a cabal of the most senior Baath Party functionaries, their trusted and murderous SS/Gestapo like security and police detail, a defense strategy designed to maximize the death of Iraqi civilians through alleged coalition murder, and most importantly, a co-ordinated propaganda machine abetted by Al Jazeera, Reuters, free lance international journalists and media to invent, stage, amplify and present graphic imagery of innocent civilian carnage, bogus staging of heroic Iraqi citizen resolve and powerful counterattack, and a 24X7 presentation of a moribund Coalition military campaign and a universal World opposition to its existence.
I may even construct a LONGER and more clumsy sentence than the one above, just because I'm so jazzed to be an American right now.
These Baghdad perverts want a diplomatic out. They think Bush will wilt under an increasing domestic unease from 24X7 bombardment of images of Iraqi civilian casualties and a seeming military gridlock.
I can very well see Jaques Chirac and Kofi Annan on the phone with Aziz and that VP: "Don't panic. Don't launch the happy gas. Work the plan, string this out. Create the landscape of innocent death and destruction. Give us a moral high ground to exploit in our media and international forums. Keep a stranglehold on your citizens. Create some time for the martyr sons of jihad to operate against American and British targets. We need time, if we're going to get a U.N. outcome that saves all our asses."
Bush won't play that game. We've got guys on the ground who WILL go house to house after Saddam's thugs if they hide among the innocents. The Brits are best in the world in close urban military tactics and training - they've heard of a town named Belfast. The Kurds will steamroll Tikrid from the North. The people of Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Najaf will be fed, clothed, protected and given medical care. The terrorist thugs will be rooted out and killed, one by one. There is no central opposition, this is a last ditch desparation ploy by the Saddam Gangsta crew to delay for a French or U.N. rescue. Wrongo. They executed our young soldiers, shot them in the head point blank for the entertainment of their fans in shitholes around the Arab world.
This thing has an ending, and it guarantees that Saddam and his butchers are dead, and that Iraqis are delivered from a living hell, and that the civilized world is significantly safer and our path to scumbag Islamist terrorists and their handlers is just that much clearer.
We have Bush. We have Blair. We have America, the Brits and the righteous destiny. We have ... belly girl.
Your punchline was a zinger!!
Whatever rocks your world Arne.
For those not-in-the-know: this is a reference to a pic of the young woman holding an anti-protest sign (a parody of the anti-war peacniks) who's wearing a short shirt with her belly showing.