Remember my recent post here?
Ground Troops “If Needed???” I Been TELLIN’ Ya!!!
No? You could look it up.
I likened the current U.S. runup to Iraq War v.3 to the classic vaudeville sketch “Niagara Falls” that was popularized by Abbot and Costello in the ’50s. You know, the one where a slightly odd-looking man turns progressively more and more ferocious every time he hears the words “Niagara Falls.”
“Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…” etc.
That piece was posted a scant 12 days ago. Now the American war machine (octop)US is dropping a second shoe. There are many more to come. At least six. Watch.
I tol’ ya!!!
Read on for more.
More war.
Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch…”
Here’s the next inch.
Brought to you by that increasingly W. C. Fields-esque pitchman, Barack “Carnival Bob” Obama.
Step right up, ladeez an’ gennulmens. Step right up.
He talks outta both sides of his mouth even when he’s only using one voice. Amazing!!!
Obama: ‘We underestimated the threat posed by Islamic State’
Obama: U.S. intelligence underestimated militants in Syria- CBS
They all say essentially the same thing. Why? How?? Because they were all presented to the various media by the PermaGov propaganda department, of course.The following will suffice as a precis.
Obama: U.S. Underestimated ISIS, Overestimated Iraqi Army
President Obama, during an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes, cites a member of his administration in acknowledging that the United States underestimated the rise of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, while overestimating the Iraqi army’s capacity to fight against the terrorist organization.
In the interview, which will be broadcast Sunday night, the president mentions remarks by James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, that the U.S. intelligence community underestimated the impact of Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) in Syria.
According to an excerpt released by CBS, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft later says that Clapper “did not just say that we underestimated ISIL. He said we overestimated the ability and the will of our allies, the Iraqi army, to fight.”
“That is true,” Obama replies. “That is absolutely true.”
—snip—
WTFU.
Please.
Obama is just a more subtle George Bush II.
You call yourselves “progressives” while simultaneously supporting the Obama regime and the DemocRatic party for which it stands? Well…that’s about right. He shows progress, alright. He’s subtler than was BushCo.
WTFU.
Please.
AG
P.S. James Clapper!!!??? The guy who bald-facedly lied to the Senate when asked if the NSA was wiretapping innocent American citizens?
Please.
Cicero said it, long ago and far away.
Mendaci neque quum vera dicit, creditor.” (A liar is not to be believed even when he speaks the truth.)
Yup.
I am tempted to open a lottery of some kind. The first respondent who correctly names the day that the next shoe is going to drop gets an all expenses paid, week-long vacation in Syria.
Second prize?
Two weeks.
Wake the fuck up.
A decade-long, all expenses paid vacation on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?
WTFU.
AG
“Obama is just a more subtle George Bush II.”
You have never spoken truer words. Now we are both going to be branded as “evil white men”. Of course the “evil” part is redundant.
When he ran, I thought Obama was the man to heal our racial wounds. Instead, he has just ripped off the scabs.
“Evil white men?”
Buillshit on the face of it.
I have absolutely no racial bones to pick with anybody no matter what the color of their skin, and neither does anyone get any special breaks from me, either. People’s ancestry has nothing whatsoever to do with what I think about their actions. Obama has thoroughly proven himself to be a representative of the U.S. Permanent Government, and I place the blame for the ongoing headlong disintegration of the United States, its government and its culture over the last 50+ years squarely on the heads of the corporate entities that own and run that Permanent Government.
You work for them; you are part of the problem.
Simple as that.
AG
Actually, I work for the US Government, specifically the US Postal Service that your guy Paul would privatize.
As for evil white men, I heard today, while driving home, a caller to the Michelangelo Signorile talk show say that the country needs “white working class baby boomers to be six feet under” and Signorile agreed with him. I don’t know how much longer I’m going to run with a Democratic Party that wants me dead, just because they are marginally better than the crazy religious hillbillies in the other party.
Maybe it would be better off privatized. It sure as hell isn’t working very well now. Not inna Bronx it ain’t. Believe it. I pay extra for a private mail acceptance store and non-USPS services any time I want to be sure that I receive or send a correspondence or package on time, and I avoid the local post offices at all costs unless I have an hour to kill and a letter or package that I don’t really need to get wherever it’s going in good time and at the correct address. Too many failures in the past for me to trust the USPS further than I can throw it. Especially in working class, mixed-race neighborhoods like mine. Classist like a motherfucker, the USPS as it stands now. Money gets service, less money gets less service, right down the line.
I use the post offices in midtown Manhattan…where I often work and rehearse…regularty as long as the stuff I’m sending isn’t too complicated. But inna Bronx? No fucking way!!! I learned my lesson early and thoroughly when i first moved here. I dropped my rent check in the corner post box, all addressed right, etc. My landlord in Manhattan didn’t get it for three months. Luckily, she’s a friend, so I just gave her another check when she didn’t receive it and cancelled the old one.
You don’t have to tell me twice when something isn’t working right. Bet on it.
Later…
AG
hehehahahohohuhuhahah
The US Postal Service has been deliberately wrecked to get people to the point of saying things like that. It’s been a long time coming. Remember the phrase “going postal?” Remember how long ago that was? That’s when it started. In truth I am amazed it has taken this long to destroy a basic public amenity–given how hard they have been working at it!
Eventually you will get your privatized system. It won’t be any better, nor cheaper, but you will sleep well knowing that at least the new kleptocrat owners are making tons of money off of it!
For the rest of us, we will be relearning the lost art of carrier pigeons.
–Gaianne
PS W.A.S.T.E. The Crying of Lot 49 was a little ahead of its time.
the leaders resort to war.
The US is facing a downturn, within a year, at least as big as 2008.
War is the answer. It won’t help the economy, but will provide needed distraction. The Permagov is unanimous on this. Time is running out.
That is the reason for Syria, the Ukraine and Hong Kong. ISIS is the Syria war gone bad–puppets out of control. So more war is needed there too–while making another try for Syria.
It is all self-defeating. Russia and China are being forced to bring down the petrodollar sooner than they intended. When that happens 2008 will be the good old days.
War will continue while the US exists.
–Gaianne