Busy Here

But finally got a chance to take a break. I'll be short on comments for a while--at least until the swelling in my elbow goes down a little.

From Needlenose, here's an interesting take on the recent hostage disaster in Saudi Arabia. War Nerd points out that the Saudi terrorists TOOK A LUNCH BREAK during the rampage that left 22 "non-believers" dead. Think about that.

Our ALLIES can't be trusted to track down terrorists taking time to head over to a resort for a little R&R between horrific acts of violence. In fact, they didn't "storm" the building until the next day. With friends like this...

Don't forget to also check out a post below regarding the latest car bombing, which segues nicely into a story and comment about the electricity shortage. Apparently, three of the dead from today's blast were employed by Granite Services Inc., which is one of the companies contracted to restore the electrical grid.

What is being proved here is that the insurgents--be they WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT TO CALL THEM--are more than capable of keeping Iraq in a chaotic situation for as long as the US occupies the country (at least in present form, although at this point what would an extra 300,000 soldiers do?). And that's ALL they have to do for the occupation to be a total failure.

Add the Abu Ghraib (and other prison) abuse(s) to the mix, and the level of fucked up beyond all recognition would actually have to improve if we want to call it fucked up beyond all recognition. To think otherwise is to be willfully blind. We're talking 1980 New Orleans Aints amd then some.