To paraphrase Steve Miller, the "Friedman-Unit" six month window "keeps on slipping into the future"--well, except for the fact that any sane person knew since before the March, 2003 invasion that the whole sorry enterprise would eventually turn to shit-on-an-stick (of explosives).
The latest, courtesy of First-Draft and Rising Hegemon, demonstrates how the Friedman Unit--or, as Attaturk puts it, the "FU"--continues to be...hmmm...how to say?...a source of solace, or, perhaps more accurately, a bloody mass of straw and splinters upon which to cling to like a security blanket while hoping against all hope that SOMETHING...ANYTHING...can be salvaged from George W. Bush's petulance (and Tony "Poodle Boy" Blair's complicity):
Civil war is a more likely outcome in Iraq than democracy, Britain's outgoing ambassador in Baghdad has warned Tony Blair in a confidential memo.
William Patey, who left the Iraqi capital last week, also predicted the break-up of Iraq along ethnic lines...
The cable says that "the next six months are crucial" - an assessment which is shared by the coalition's military commanders.
"The next six months..." What a steaming pile...on the bed.
No, the bed won't UN-shit itself. It will need to be cleaned up. And the longer it stays, the worse it's going to get.
Yesterday, on Countdown Tom Ricks offered his own opinion, that there was, oh, about a 5 percent chance of the mother-of-all-clusterfucks turning out ok. Of course, that means there's a 95 PERCENT chance of this being as good as it gets. Geez.
Oh, and in case nobody noticed, the United States is getting a real taste of an Iraqi-style summer. Gee, maybe there IS a god, and she's letting us know SHE IS PISSED.
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