three blind mice... see how they run...
John Gates, US Defence Secrtetary, says the US is not winning the Iraq war.
Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, says "we are losing ... the Army is stretched, possibly broken."
Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the CIA, a national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, and, before that, deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, reckons that "the US are breeding more terrorists than they're catching."
And here in Australia, Nick McKenzie, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, quotes (among others) the following Australian defence experts:
Vice-Admiral Ian MacDougall: "It is time the Australian Government … acknowledged this is unwinnable and we have to get out before we get hurt and get our tail kicked ... This is unwinnable."
Vice-Admiral David Leach: "Iraq is a confused and a hearty mess."
Air Marshal Ray Funnell: "...those denying there was civil war in Iraq were not facing up to the reality."
General Peter Gration, chief of the Defence Force during the first Gulf War: "The coalition has clearly failed. Australia should stop re-enforcing failure. The situation cannot be remedied and the decision to withdraw has to be taken."
But...
Against all of this (and more), Bush, Blair, and our own fearless leader, John Howard, reckon that we can win this war. What the do they mean by "win"?
Anyway, it's clear that they willfully distorted the original intelligence assessments on Iraq in order to contrive an excuse to go war, and now they blindly distort the advice they are getting to continue to try to win an unwinnable war.
Is the term "fucking murderous idiots" too strong to describe them?
Ok, how about "war criminals" then... ?
Waddya reckon?
Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, says "we are losing ... the Army is stretched, possibly broken."
Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the CIA, a national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, and, before that, deputy director of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, reckons that "the US are breeding more terrorists than they're catching."
And here in Australia, Nick McKenzie, writing for the Sydney Morning Herald, quotes (among others) the following Australian defence experts:
Vice-Admiral Ian MacDougall: "It is time the Australian Government … acknowledged this is unwinnable and we have to get out before we get hurt and get our tail kicked ... This is unwinnable."
Vice-Admiral David Leach: "Iraq is a confused and a hearty mess."
Air Marshal Ray Funnell: "...those denying there was civil war in Iraq were not facing up to the reality."
General Peter Gration, chief of the Defence Force during the first Gulf War: "The coalition has clearly failed. Australia should stop re-enforcing failure. The situation cannot be remedied and the decision to withdraw has to be taken."
But...
Against all of this (and more), Bush, Blair, and our own fearless leader, John Howard, reckon that we can win this war. What the do they mean by "win"?
Anyway, it's clear that they willfully distorted the original intelligence assessments on Iraq in order to contrive an excuse to go war, and now they blindly distort the advice they are getting to continue to try to win an unwinnable war.
Is the term "fucking murderous idiots" too strong to describe them?
Ok, how about "war criminals" then... ?
Waddya reckon?
posted by The Editor at
11:55 PM
7 Comments:
An awful lot of damage has been done to humanity throughout history because of a stupid thing called pride.
Indeed, Kurt. Not mention stupid things like stupidity and egotistical willfulness and wanton bumlickery.
Gerry, this is also me: http://thehorsesear.wordpress.com/
I think mass murder on a mega-scale in order to satisify economic "interests" is way more serious than mere "pride", "stupidity", "egotistical willfullness" or "wanton bumlickery". And there must be be justice. These mega-criminals need to be brought to justice. The Coalition Of The Killing has killed heaps more innocent people than Saddam or the Taliban ever did. I want to see them stand tial in The Hague! I want to see them found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. I want them locked up for life! I want... Aw fuck, no one's going to grant me my christmas wishes anyway...
we would if we could :-)
I think from a behavioural point of view, they are all displaying predictable attributes.
Each of then is unable to admit failure or making a mistake. So it is not surprising to see them in denial.
j
We are all trained not to observe concrete reality as a condition of belonging to a hierarchical society. If we were to observe reality and act upon our observations of it, the basis for hierarchical society would soon crumble! Unfortunately, the leadership is itself often not immune from this herd mentality. After all, they have been conditioned by its forces as they've climbed up through the bourgeois social ranks.
Jennifer, "concrete reality" ?? Not sure what you mean by that term. Much of what is called "reality" is highly subjective and open to debate. I've found very little absolute reality in my 60 years on this psychotic planet. Homo Modernus is the species most damaging to the welfare of this planet(IMHO).
The concept of non-hierarchal structures for society leave me quite puzzled as to why.how they would work better than hierarchal ones.
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