VAMPIRE POLICY

IRAQ WHICH WAS BAD WILL NOW WILL BECOME WORSE But we had to do something. What was formerly murderous is now cataclysmic.  But we had to do something.  The “terrorists” and WMD not in Iraq before are there NOW.  The influence of Shiite Iran in the Mid East so feared by Rumsfeld and Reagan in the Eighties will become a reality twenty years later.  But there will be someone to fight the Shia.  Sunnis influenced by the extremist Wahabi will fight long and hard to maintain control of what territory they control, territory unfortunately devoid of oil.  Kurds rich in oil will continue to call for more autonomy in the north. Turkey will worry about the Kurds to the south in Iraq seeking union with Kurdish clans to the north and in Turkey.  Pakistan, armory to all things awful, atomic and otherwise, will see more opportunities to extend its shadow across Islam from the east.

CHENEY AND BUSH HAVE NICKED IRAQ in the neck and we can await a vampire’s victory there.  Iraq will be a country unalive, but undead, offering only worse to countries around it.

BUT WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING  Such is the greedy call of white men with the burden of too much power and money on their hands who lay claim to build yet more capital and control on the backs of young men.  The dream of an Americentric Middle East is now the nightmare.  The Iraqi Constitution proceeds to its next step tomorrow.  An important vote awaits. 

BUSH WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING The vote that Bush and Cheney now worry about comes in the 2006 mid term elections.  Look for sad reality and happy rhetoric to further diverge. Bush’s numbers will continue to plummet. Tactics will fall further into the political gutter.

BUT WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING Basic services in Iraq deteriorate further. Religious extremism grows. Women’s rights are about to evaporate in that extreme heat.  Civil war surrounds the American Green Zone. American soldiers are surrounded by Iraqis who only want America out.  By what right and what law were we ever there?

WE NOW WALK IN A STRANGE TWILIGHT where justification for the act  comes from citing wishful thinking. Such moral clarity only reveals the dark vision of the self deceived.

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[WAPO]Iraqi officials yesterday struggled to agree on a draft constitution by a deadline of tomorrow so the document can be submitted to a vote in October. The political transition would be completed in December by elections for a permanent government.
But the realities of daily life are a constant reminder of how the initial U.S. ambitions have not been fulfilled in ways that Americans and Iraqis once anticipated. Many of Baghdad's 6 million people go without electricity for days in 120-degree heat. Parents fearful of kidnapping are keeping children indoors.
Barbers post signs saying they do not shave men, after months of barbers being killed by religious extremists. Ethnic or religious-based militias police the northern and southern portions of Iraq. Analysts estimate that in the whole of Iraq, unemployment is 50 percent to 65 percent.
But whatever the outcome on specific disputes, the document on which Iraq's future is to be built will require laws to be compliant with Islam. Kurds and Shiites are expecting de facto long-term political privileges. And women's rights will not be as firmly entrenched as Washington has tried to insist, U.S. officials and Iraq analysts say. . . .
"We set out to establish a democracy, but we're slowly realizing we will have some form of Islamic republic," said another U.S. official familiar with policymaking from the beginning, who like some others interviewed would speak candidly only on the condition of anonymity. "That process is being repeated all over."
U.S. officials now acknowledge that they misread the strength of the sentiment among Kurds and Shiites to create a special status. The Shiites' request this month for autonomy to be guaranteed in the constitution stunned the Bush administration, even after more than two years of intense intervention in Iraq's political process, they said . . .
"We've said we won't leave a day before it's necessary. But necessary is the key word -- necessary for them or for us? When we finally depart, it will probably be for us," a U.S. official said.

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[grannyinsanity]

Well, Dick needs to kick back every once in a while at great expense to everybody. How many black hawk helicopters does one man need to go fishing anyway?

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/2669/#

The other Dick thing I want to talk about is did you see the picture of him and the rest of the lunatics down at the ranch, Dick was wearing a heavy coat.