It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1967

[kpete]

Wednesday :: Nov 30, 2005
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like 1967
The war hawks are squabbling. To stay or to go. How to stay and how to go. How to “win.” To stay to honor those who have already fallen. To stay until the native forces are ready to step in and continue our fight. How the war is larger than the one we see -- it’s a global war against communism/terrorism. Yada, dada, Dali.

Then, as now, only yahoos are admitted to the debate. Ah, yes, let’s keep dining exclusively at Chez MIC that give us food poisoning, every time. Tasty going down and doesn’t hurt too much unless you’re one of the unlucky dead ones. Fewer of them these days and nobody forced them to eat. Why is Chef Murtha (who earned his poisoned food toque the old fashioned way by tasting and not dying before serving it up to others) suddenly smelling the broth and telling everyone to stop eating now? Well, he didn’t exactly say now, but soon. Yes, soon. Hell, all the cooks understand and agree on “soon.” Or later.

To stay in Iraq will change little but the number of deaths to and by Americans and the amount the war adds to the National Debt. The war hawks don’t know that now and will never accept it later. We’ll stay as they all try to prove that the US can “win” in Iraq. The McCain war hawks will always blame the failure on the lack of more troops. The Bidens will blame the failure on the too fast, too slow or too inept handling of a drawdown. Bush will blame Congress, liberals and politics. They’ll spar over prosecution of the occupation and none of them will publicly disclose their goal for Iraq. To do so would to expose them all as delusional and/or imperialists.

The war hawks in this country will insure is that whatever is to come in Iraq will be later instead of sooner. They will continue to fuck up as long as Americans don’t tell them to fuck off. That too is likely to come later if ever.
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[MisterP]

1. hope that doesn't mean we'll be in IraqNam until 2012!

[Neocondriac]

2. We will never leave Iraq........

It is the homebase for perpetual war.

[NAO]

3. Hopefully, Nixon will not win as he did in 1968

and then again in 1972.

[Wilms]

4. That's good news!

The Beatles are about to release Sgt. Peppers!

[annabanana]

5. also... Georgie has a "plan" for withdrawal...

I remember years worth of "plans" that Nixon had to get out of 'nam. And the same damn idiots were pushing the same crap--- Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Of course

No wonder it's dejavu...cause it is!

[Loge23]

7. We can only hope

1967 - the beginning of massive and many antiwar protests
- the dawning of the age of aquarius (what happened to that!)
- the summer of love.
- golden era for rock music.
- an optimistic time in the face of trouble
- empowerment for women, people of color, gays.

As opposed to 2005.
- the fifth year of the occupation
- a hopeless, illegal war drones on
- corporate crime is high fashion
- no fun anymore, just work (if you're lucky)
- repression of freedom, progressive thought
- rollback on women's rights
- repression of gays
- ignorance and neglect for the needy.