Sunday, November 28, 2004
Setting Up the "Next Big Thing..."
Doing a lot of catching-up after the Thanksgiving weekend.0 comments
Here's a good one I missed until spotting it in an Eschaton post:
Hawks push deep cuts in forces in Iraq
This is just great.
Just great.
1,200 dead Americans kind of "just great."
As I've written before, the Neo-cons are bored with their broken Iraq toy.
Now, they are openly calling for U.S. troop pullouts from Iraq—something that John Kerry was ripped mercilessly about for even hinting at.
On the surface this seems odd.
Why in heaven's name would Neo-cons turn their backs on the prospect of Nation-building in Iraq?
Simple.
They're going to need all available troops later—FOR IRAN!!!
You don't want to get your rolling stock all shot up by a bunch of crazies and terrorists when you're gonna need them later for what you REALLY want.
So the Neo-con Media Machine is out in full force, lying and spinning its way into your frontal lobe, getting you to believe, once again, that what you see with your own eyes and know as fact isn't real; that what you hear from them is really real. At least, until they get caught and have to change what's really real. Then THAT'll be really real.
Keep an eye out for the following names—and BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THEY SAY—these are The Sirens, the current crop of surrogates the administration is hiding behind to float out this new concept to see how big a hue and cry it causes [and, yes, this is your cue to hue and cry!], and whether they can successfully get the press's Conventional Wisdom to morph to their liking (as if they haven't always...):
Michael Vickers, a conservative-leaning Pentagon consultant and longtime senior CIA official who supported the war.
Retired Army Major General William Nash, the former NATO commander in Bosnia.
Yonadam Kanna, secretary general of the Assyrian Democratic Movement and a member of Iraq's interim National Assembly, also backed the US-led removal of Hussein.
Robert Pfaltzgraff, president of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis in Cambridge and a vocal supporter of Bush's Iraq policy to this point.
Christopher A. Preble, the conservative-leaning Cato Institute's director of foreign policy studies, author of "Exiting Iraq," published by Cato.
Edward Luttwak, a longtime Pentagon consultant.
John Hamre, president of the center for Strategic and International Studies and former deputy secretary of defense in the Clinton administration who remains in close contact with senior Pentagon officials.
Ken Adelman, a member of the Defense Policy Board who predicted the Iraq war would be a "cakewalk."
But Max Boot, a leading war supporter, and an influential neoconservative thinker who has believed the United States must stick it out for an undetermined amount of time, even if the U.S. presence is beginning to threaten long-term goals, states a new-found kinship with the liberal Left with this goofy quote:
"This is turning out to be a lot harder than anyone expected—and harder than it needed to be," Boot said last week.
"I'm not one of those calling for a quick pullout," he added. "I agree there is some downside to the US troops' presence; it definitely fuels some nationalist resentment."
No shit, Sherlock. See? Scratch a Neo-con and there's a progressive liberal under there somewhere.
You just have to wait for their frustration level to get high enough.
These people are truly insane, indeed.
P.S. And let it not be stated by any moron later on that, "Gee, no one knew it would be this bad in Iran."
Today, on Sunday, November 28, we're saying it would be that bad.
posted by Gotham 3:53 PM
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