Alpha & Omega

My design submission for the George W. Bush Memorial

Well, shit, how many more wars can wingnuttia compare to Operation Gas Tank Gets Clogged with Mesopotamian Sand?

Bush Compares Revolutionary, Terror Wars

MOUNT VERNON, Va. (AP) -- President Bush honored the 275th birthday of the nation's first president on Monday, likening George Washington's long struggle that gave birth to a nation to the war on global terrorism.

Meanwhile, the glorious news of last week--a day that featured "only" ten bodies showing up at the Baghdad Morgue--has been supplanted by more of the now-usual violence.

And if that's not enough, the REAL enemy, namely, the fundamentalist Islamic nutjobs who inspired 9/11 have bided their time...and are now benefitting from Team Bush's "Que Sera" approach:

Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.

Nice job, wingnuts.

But what's truly sad is that wingnuttia will CONTINUE to try to spin...to the point of dizzily falling down, exhausted from all the exertion:

The warbloggers have completely internalized their support for this war to the point where their very identities as human beings hinge on its success. They see the war as a symbol of what makes America, and by extension themselves, strong, noble and good. And since America can never be anything but strong, noble and good, any negative news about the war must by necesity come from an Internal Enemy Within that is jealous of America’s strength.

Arguing with these guys becomes extremely depressing after a while. It’s like trying to convince the average LaRouchie that the Queen of England does not, in fact, run the world crack trade. Sure, you occasionally get guys like John Cole who get deprogrammed, but most will be stuck this way for the rest of their lives. 9/11 permanently traumatized an entire generation of right-wing nerds, and nothing we say can change that.