What if Iraq was Texas?

[MrBenchley]

Great essay on a blog....

"The population of Iraq is about 24 million, just a tad more than the population of Texas. Imagine that in Texas, several acres in the center of the capital city, including the capitol building and government offices, are surrounded by a 12 foot high blast wall, and that citizens are forbidden to enter the zone to meet with their representatives or officials of state agencies, or to observe legislative or court proceedings. The state is occupied by 140,000 Russian soldiers, who travel in armored convoys and shoot 50 caliber automatic rifles at any vehicle that gets close to them. Hardly any of them speaks a word of English.
<snip>
On a typical Friday:
A car bomb kills 9 people at a Catholic church in Lubbock.
A Texas Ranger is killed and 3 are injured by a roadside bomb in Dallas.
A car bomb in Waco kills three civilians.
<snip>
Vladimir Putin complains constantly that the news media aren't covering all the good news from Texas."

http://healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-dont-they-tell-us-good-news.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. good analogy

What's funny is if you talk to a rwinger around my neck of the woods and ask what they would do if invaded, to a person they say they would fight back. But when you say that's what's happening in Iraq, they say no, no, that's not it at all :eyes:

[MrBenchley]

3. I thought so....

Worth noting that Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity and all the other right wing blowhards on the air NEVER urge their slack-jawed listeners to join up and help the fuehrer's crusade.

Nor does Newsmax or WorldNut Daily ever urge its readers to join up.

[enigma000]

2. And Mexicans come across the border and suicide bomb

hospitals, churches, marketplaces, and other locations so they can go to heaven and live with Jesus.

And Russian and UN sponsored elections put Ann Richards in power.

And the new Texas “government” is friendly with, say, the rest of the US (which doesn’t like Russia that much).

I wonder what would happen…….

[enigma000]

4. kick