Oh, what the hell, let's just stay forever [Iraq]

[Miss Authoritiva]

By Grace Nearing at Scriptoids

We broke it, we own it, and we’ll be paying for it for the next thousand years, so let’s just keep Iraq. Let’s make it an organized unincorporated territory of the United States--like Guam, ie, non-self-governing, of course, but with lots and lots and lots of oil reserves.

Let’s call it Neoconlandia.

George W. Bush will be its first governor, Cheney its first lieutenant governor. Bush can appoint Kristol, Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, and Podhoretz to whatever cabinets and departments for which they are least competent. Rumsfeld can be in charge of sanitation. And dear old Robert Bork can practice his version of Sharia law as Chief Justice of Neoconlandia’s Supreme Court.

People, we’ve been thinking about the Iraq War too unidimensionally. We’re thinking inside the box, we’re coloring between the lines, we’re letting ourselves be constrained, dare I say it, by reality.

Iraq is not a quagmire--it’s a postage-due godsend!

Let’s face it, most of our good bubbles have already burst: the currency bubble, the tech bubble, the housing bubble, the finance bubble. This may be our last chance for a really good bubble: the annexation and colonization of Neoconlandia, which, you should remember, already has a heavenly flat tax system.

As Russian immigrants once volunteered to settle the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Neoconlandia will need its own supply of desperate/motivated settlers. Prime candidates include Neoconservatives (obviously), rapture-ready Christians, and polygamist orthodox Mormons; they’ll all fit right in.

On the secular side, those struggling with huge credit card debts or facing foreclosure due to subprime mortgages can have the slate wiped clean if they’ll just agree to rent some modest apartments (utilities not included) in downtown Mosul or Tikrit for a decade or two. College grads can be forgiven their crushing student loan debt in exchange for living and working in Baghdad until their fortieth birthday.

But wait--there’s more!

More...

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Works for me. Guam and Puerto Rico need...

some pals in this world as not quite colonies, not quite states.

[Hieronymus]

2. We very likely will be there forever.

[lligrd]

3. Wait, We Don't Need To Keep It

Just let the Neocons have their own country. Drop Bush, Cheney and gang off over there and see if they can get the government to run. If they fail, it won't be our problem.

[cutlassmama]

4. They've got all our money to run it anyway. eom

[Indenturedebtor]

5. If you build it... they will come

A Walmart that is! Hell throw in an Applebees, Blockbuster, TGI Fridays, and a McDonalds. Just drop them off by the truck load in their new minimall centered suburbs and they'll never know ;)

[Demeter]

6. It Can Be Our Club Med Guantanamo

the neocons' permanent vacation destination.