Hey, You’re Broke, Wanna Shoot People?

For the first time in almost four years the Great Ape has sort of admitted that the US is losing the war in Iraq. His solution, though I’m sure only a part, is to increase the size of the US military in general by 70,000 troops in, of course, preparation for a what he likes to remind everyone is, at this point anyway, a war in perpetuity. So I guess they’d better start scouring lower income neighborhoods now before they’re forced to do something drastic and send middle class kids overseas. Because the last time that happened the war so many were supportive of came to an abrupt end.

If we’re to listen to academics like Tariq Ali, then abstract revelations begin to creep into the minds of those Americans completely disconnected from the products of their vengeful recklessness. As the good professor points out - “ideological zealotry has helped destroy Iraq, revive the Taliban and increase the terror threat�. With this fall seeing an average of 900+ attacks against Americans and Iraqis every week, who’s going to argue with him? You?

But hey, what does it matter? What’s $110+ billion this year alone for a war started by men that are little more than adjuncts for war profiteers? (one has to find new and inventive ways around using the now tired phrase military industrial complex). Come to think of it, the Bush family certainly aren’t strangers to war profiteering. The President’s grandfather certainly had some dirty little fingers in some dirty little pies.

Now, who’s for a little Christmas Turkey Loaf in a FEMA trailer?