Our Billion Dollar Turd Sandwich

[upstatecajun]

So President Obama has been quoted calling his war in Libya a turd sandwich, while Juan Cole calls it philanthropy, and Ed Schultz praises it as vengeance against this month's Adolph Hitler. The last time we bombed this particular Hitler we took out his daughter, among other people.

How is Schultz's spitting mad hatred as war justification squared with Cole's humanitarian generosity? The answer is easy. They prefer different condiments on their turd sandwiches. Which is why wars are always packaged in multiple and mutually contradictory propaganda campaigns.

Obama's advisors are almost certainly telling him that LBJ and Nixon were right to be terrified of "losing" a war. Of course refusing to "lose" a war cost both of them the presidency. Bush refused to "lose" in Iraq for years, handed that function to Obama, and credit for it is about all Obama has to ride on now. Two-thirds of Americans are demanding that we hurry up and "lose" in Afghanistan. Pollsters say Americans have turned against the Libya war faster than any previous war. And all Obama wants to know is whether he can supersize his turd sandwich.

http://www.liberalohioan.com/Swanson-Sandwich.html

[Taverner]

1. I'm all against the war and all, but Quadaffi's "daughter" was made up

He made that up, since his daughter seemed to spring from nowhere...

[Rex]

2. It is a time honored method, start a war and then see how fast you

can distance yourself from said war. Works great in America. Just like veterans; praise them until they ETS, then curse them for wanting any sort of medical treatment.