Our Glorious War
Today is the Fourth Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion (yesterday marked the Fourth Anniversary of “Shock and Awe”, the Glorious Bombing Campaign that Gloriously killed so many brown people).
It’s been a fabulous time for everyone: there’s nothing that brings a family together like a funeral, and we’ve seen plenty (although not as many as the Iraqis have seen).
The Glorious Little War, widely predicted by its supporters to last “a matter of weeks”, and cost “an “upper bound” estimate of $100 billion to $200 billion”, is now in year four, and is going to cost trillions. Oopsie.
So, since we paid for it, let’s see what we got.
Lots of really neat explosions
Condi’s goggles keep her mascara free from fresh blood
David Broder thinks lying about blow jobs is bad, but lying about wars that kill thousands is A-OK.
Liberal angst hurts America. Unlike Charles Krauthammer, whose claims that “Iraq is Hitlerian Germany, a truly mad police state with external ambitions and a menacing arsenal” didn’t hurt anyone.
Except for perhaps this chunk of flesh, which used to be a woman. Way to go, Charles!
“There’s a lot of money to pay for this. It doesn’t have to be U.S. taxpayer money. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.” “We are treating the Iraqi prisoners extremely well. In fact I think they get good food and shelter and they’re free from the horrible commanders they used to work for. I think most of them are much happier, frankly.”
We are treating the Iraqi prisoners extremely well.
Richard Perle: Alive and well-fed
Not so alive in Fallujah
Not so well-fed in Iraq.
Thanks Fred Hiatt.
Carbomb (also known as “Belfast carbomb” or “Irish carbomb”) is a boilermaker made with stout (for example, Guinness), Irish cream (e.g. Baileys) and Irish whiskey such as Jameson or Tullamore Dew. Someday, thanks to people like Fred Hiatt, George Bush, Richard Paul Wolfowitz, and a host of others, we’ll have a drink called the Iraqi Car Bomb: I can’t tell you what’s in it, but there’s a LOT of bitters, and someone else gets left holding the bill.
Travelin’ along, it’s the song that we’re singin’…
C’mon get happy!
C’mon get happy!
C’mon get happy!
C’mon get Happy!
C’mon get happyyy-eee-yeee!
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March 20th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Oh my God. I can’t stop crying.
March 20th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
we are ruled by monster, sociopathic monsters.
March 22nd, 2007 at 3:55 am
Watched the Richard Engel Iraq doc, War Zone Documentary, on MSNBC tonight two times in a row and it was a tough watch but absolutely necessary viewing. It spans his last four years in Baghdad and beyond, and while it was edited down to an hour, it was almost too much to take. I had to turn away during a couple of horrific scenes. As this war drags on, I can’t stop thinking more and more about the psychological impact it is having, and will have, on the people involved in it. Link to MSNBC press release is here.
March 31st, 2007 at 11:07 am
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