Actually, for those being deployed, and those already there, it's quite a bit more serious, but the image above is more or less what's been in my head as one, I waited for Blogger to reintroduce itself to the internets, and two, read or otherwise looked over the latest news about the upcoming splurge, I mean, surge (or bump), which stands about as much chance of succeeding as, well, a drunk looking for his lost keys three blocks away because "the light's better here."
Iraq is irrevocably lost. It's OVER. Yet, the administration, led by the mulehead-in-chief, continue to insist that they can somehow turn the mother-of-all-rancid-shit into something resembling shinola. Yesterday Paul Krugman asked if this was cynicism or delusion, implying a mixture of both. I'd like to add the additional question of whether or not the whole sorry, deadly, tragic, grotesque spectacle is a final sop to appease the Team Bush base...the expense of what they apparently consider acceptable losses of lives and money for the sole purpose of well, at this point ONLY being able to thumb their collective noses at those of us who actually understood that Iraq was a Pandora's box of trouble just waiting for a gaggle of idiots to come along and open. In other words, they're playing politics with violent death.
Sadly, I wouldn't be all that surprised if this WAS the case. We've seen--quite clearly for those of us along the Gulf Coast--how readily, even eagerly, Bush's "base" is ready to throw away an entire region without so much as a "see ya later, thanks for the natural resources." So, what's a few extra troops' lives...or a few thousand extra Iraqi lives...if it delays the day of reckoning to January 20th, 2009?
And, if surge/bump somehow DOES manage to do that, you can bet thousands of GOP chickenhawks that, come January 21st, they'd be blaming whoever occupies the Oval Office for the loss...
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