Okay, I've figured it out. Here's how shrubco gets through 4 yrs. of Iraq

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

They simply come up with some bogus "milestone" every 6 months to a year where things will presumably get better after the milestone, thereby making the senseless deaths of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi resistance and civilians somehow justified and tolerable.

Sort of like we had

"the end of major combat operations" (remember that one? The commemorative mugs are now collector's items!)

"handover of sovereignty" (a classic)

and "the first democratic elections in the history of Iraq" (oh, wait, not yet).

There could be

"selection of the Grand Poo-bah" ("the increased pace of suicide bombings merely shows the desperation of the terrorists to prevent the selection of the Grand Poo-bah")

"the first Iraqi Superbowl of American Football"

etc.


C'mon, it's easy! :eyes: You try one!

[Solar]

1. lets see here...

"First 'Miss Iraq' contest!"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Maybe Karl Rove will pay us for this idea.

Ya think? :shrug:

[cornfedyank]

3. shrubco don't care..gimme my tax exemption and i'm outta here.

somehow they think they earned it.

[Career Prole]

4. Like the "defeat of the insurgency" in Najaf, followed by

the "defeat of the insurgency" in Samarra, which of course was followed by the "defeat of the insurgency" in Falluja, all of which brought the insurgency to its knees (insurgencies, it seems, have more knees than centipedes) the USaqi army can have a "road show" and travel to every burg and hamlet in Iraq bringing the insurgency to its knees again.
It can be an annual thing, perhaps. Like our 4th of July.

I can't bring myself to refer to the charade they'll go through on January 30th as an election.
I prefer to call it "The Punt".

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. It'll be about as "straight" and democratic as Nov voting in Ohio. eom

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. "Were you a veteran of Fallujah I, II, III, IV, or V?"

[SariesNightly]

7. For some odd reason..

I find the words of a lone blogger in Iraq more believable than those billion dollar 'news' networks, but that's just me.


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Fuel Shortage...
It has been a sad few weeks.

The situation seems to be deteriorating daily. To brief you on a few things: Electricity is lousy. Many areas are on the damned 2 hours by 4 hours schedule and there are other areas that are completely in the dark- like A'adhamiya. The problem is that we're not getting much generator electricity because fuel has become such a big problem. People have to wait in line overnight now to fill up the car. It's a mystery. It really is. There was never such a gasoline crisis as the one we're facing now. We're an oil country and yet there isn't enough gasoline to go around...

Oh don't get me wrong- the governmental people have gasoline (they have special gas stations where there aren't all these annoying people, rubbing their hands with cold and cursing the Americans to the skies)... The Americans have gasoline. The militias get gasoline. It's the people who don't have it. We can sometimes get black-market gasoline but the liter costs around 1250 Iraqi Dinars which is almost $1- compare this to the old price of around 5 cents. It costs almost 50,000 Iraqi Dinars to fill up the generator so that it works for a few hours and then the cost isn't so much the problem as just getting decent gasoline is. So we have to do without electricity most of the day.

Cooking gas has also become a problem. The guy who sells us the gas cylinders isn't coming around because apparently he can't get the used cylinders exchanged for full ones. People are saying that it costs around 10,000 Iraqi dinars to buy one on the street and then, as usual, you risk getting one that might explode in the kitchen or be full of water. We're trying to do more and more of our 'cooking' on the kerosene heater. The faucet water is cold, cold, cold. We can't turn on the water heater because there just isn't enough electricity. We installed a kerosene water heater some time last year but that has also been off because there's a kerosene shortage and we need that for the heaters.

I took my turn at 'gasoline duty' a couple of weeks ago. E. and my cousin were going to go wait for gasoline so I decided I'd join them and keep them company. We left the house at around 5 a.m. and it was dark and extremely cold. I thought for sure we'd be the first at the station but I discovered the line was about a kilometer long with dozens and dozens of cars lined up around the block. My heart sank at the discouraging sight but E. and the cousin looked optimistic, "We just might be able to fill up before evening this time!" E. smiled.

I spent the first hour jabbering away and trying to determine whether or not gasoline was actually being sold at the station. E. and the cousin were silent- they had set up a routine. One of them would doze while the other watched in case a miracle occurred and the line actually started moving. The second hour I spent trying to sleep with my kneck at an uncomfortable angle on the back head rest. The third hour I enthusiastically tried to get up a game of "memorize the license plate". The fourth hour I fiddled with the radio and tried to sing along to every song being played on air. (It should be mentioned that at this point E. and the cousin threatened to throw Riverbend out of the car).

All in all, it took E. and the cousin 13 hours to fill the car. I say E. and the cousin because I demanded to be taken home in a taxi after the first six hours and E. agreed to escort me with the condition that I would make sandwiches for him to take back to the cousin. In the end, half of the tank of gasoline was kept inside of the car (for emergencies) and the other half was sucked out for the neighborhood generator.

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- Baghdad Burning blog -

[johncoby2]

8. After the elections Bush will pull out. Declares "freedom isnt free"

Then states that the Iraqi people must now determine their own fate.

And we will leave and let them kill each other in a civil war.

And all will praise W, the idiot.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. If only they would pull out. I seriously doubt it though.

[Skink]

10. Iraqi Walmart...

Something to look forward to.:headbang: :headbang:

[Kansas Wyatt]

11. There will be a new imminent threat....

So we'll have to pull out, we'll turn Iraq back over to the 'Republican Guard' (ironic name, huh?), and we'll launch an attack on another 'rogue' country in our Glorious War On Terror, which will turn into quagmire. *

Just to make sure everyone is staying Patriotic, we'll have another tragic terrorist attack in the U.S. right before the midterm election. *

Then, off we go again to "smoke'em out'" & "pound'em back to the stone age" in some other country that has something we need, just so we can fight'em there instead of here. *

Now hold on, cause this next one will really hurt. The Government and the Media will determine that Shrub can actually run for President again in 2008, since he never really did win in 2000 and was only appointed. Just guess what they'll determine regarding the 2004 election when 2012 gets here. *

* - Should the economy collapse or the people revolt, we'll immediately go into the Armageddon Phase of our Glorious War On Terror / World.