Clueless Molly is at it again and like all the anti-war liberals wants to know where the WMD's are.
Much as I hate to interrupt what is apparently a deeply felt triumphalism on the American right,
Yeah pretty neat, huh? What happened to all the house to house urban warfare you liberals were wringing your hands about?
now that it's over, does anyone see any reason for our having invaded Iraq?
I see lots of 'em. But let's see what bullshit Molly is gonna shovel here.
I realize that's what we all kept trying to figure out before the invasion,
What's this we shit, Molly? Do you have a turd in your pocklet? It was mostly you liberals who felt this way. Those of us on the right knew exactly what was going on.
but don't you think it should at least be visible in hindsight?
Maybe if you pulled your head out of your ass it would. Do I have to explain it to you? Did you see the jails and torture chambers? That alone was reason enough.
Good thing we won the war, because the peace sure looks like a quagmire.
Yep! Gotta get that quagmire thing in. Let's see. The war ended about two months ago. The country is in chaos and we're supposed to have everything all peachy keen by now. How long did it take us to rebuild Japan and Germany after WWII? Jesus Molly, maybe we oughta send Jimmy Carter and the Clintons over to Iraq. They'd have things fixed in two days.
These are early days, certainly, to attempt a full historical evaluation.
No shit!
Could be a case of the forest and the trees. Perhaps we're well along the road to having everything work out magnificently, and I'm just missing it.
Yep! You're right there.
Still, I can't see anything that's going right.
After only two months.
Iraq is in chaos, and apparently the only way we'll be able to stop it will be to kill a lot of Iraqis.
War is hell!
Just what Saddam used to do.
Except he was killing innocent people. We're going after the bad guys. Typical liberal moral equivalence bullshit.
The other day, we announced we were going to shoot looters, and when that produced nightmare scenarios of children dead for stealing bread, we had to cancel that plan.
It was you fucking liberals who were screaming about us not doing anything about looters. Will you make up your fucking mind!
Now we're going to try gun control -- that should have the enthusiastic support of the NRA.
Jesus Molly! Do you even have a clue?
Meanwhile, the chaos in Iraq seems to be costing us whatever goodwill we earned for getting rid of Saddam Hussein, the one unmitigated good to have come from all of this.
Holy shit! She admits that there was sumpin' good to have come from the war.
I hate to be picky, picky, picky,
When you're a fucking idiot, idiot, idiot!
but there are still no weapons of mass destruction.
Uh, Molly, they have determined that the trailors they found were indeed mobile biological labs, and Saddam had four years to hide the weapons. If there were no WMD's why did Saddam kick the inspectors out in 1998? Why was he still playing hide and seek with the latest inspectors?
In fact, we've apparently even stopped looking for them.
Huh? When did this happen?
Since Iraq never had anything to do with Al Qaeda or Sept. 11
Wrong again. Links between al Qaeda and Saddam have been found.
-- despite American public opinion on this issue -- it was certainly no surprise to see Al Qaeda back again, with strikes in both Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Bush's announcement that we had broken up the organization seems to have been a trifle premature.
Molly have you been reading Maureen Dowd? Bush never said we had broken up al Qaeda. He said we had damaged al Qaeda.
There was much un-muted griping from American intelligence about the total Saudi failure to cooperate before the attack there. (As one antiwar sign reminded us before the recent events, "Sept. 11 equals 15 Saudis, 0 Iraqis.")
Molly you just don't understand what's going on do you? We had to take out Iraq first. Believe it or not, it was about the oil. It was about guaranteeing the oil supply so we could go after Saudi Arabia (and when we do, you'll be one of the loudest voices screaming about that) and Iran. We need to drag the entire Arab world (and the Iranians) kicking and screaming into the 21'st Century. It ain't gonna be easy since they're stuck in the 7th Century.
Meanwhile, one of the other sales pitches we were given was that, for reasons never explained, getting rid of Saddam Hussein would make it easier to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It's not looking promising. Didn't look promising before the war, doesn't now.
He's no longer giving $25,000 to families of suicide bombers. I'm sure that he was financing terrorism in other ways also.
President Bush came out with his Roadmap for Peace, and the Israelis took the first exit. Ariel Sharon, so memorably described by Bush as "a man of peace," wasted no time undercutting that proposal.
He has since accepted it.
The always-unhelpful Palestinian terrorists attacked,
Duh! That's all they know. They don't want peace. They want the total destruction of Israel. They have never made a secret of that. And that fat fuck Arafat is already undermining the Roadmap to Nowhere by saying he is in charge of negotiations. That pretty much stops the Roadmap right there.
and Sharon counter-attacked
I would too.
and then cancelled his trip here to discuss the peace plan.
The Roadmap to Nowhere.
The usual ugly pictures and refueled resentments ensued; the same-old, same-old of this 50-year-old cycle. So far, getting rid of Saddam seems to have had zero effect on this old deadlock.
Close your eyes. Tap your shoes together and say "Peace. Peace. Peace."
Jesus Molly! You expect everything to happen immediately dontcha? Getting rid of Saddam was just one step in a process.
Meanwhile, Iraq looks more and more as though it will be costing us the high-end estimate of $20 billion a year,
Pretty cheap since the original estimate was $79 billion.
for which they have yet to appear noticeably grateful.
Some of 'em are.
The Shiites hate us,
Not all of 'em do.
the Kurds are killing the Arabs,
What's wrong with that?
we're hiring old Ba'athite thugs to run things and generally becoming about as popular over there as a whore trying to get into the SMU School of Theology.
Ha! Ha! Good one. Molly, you sure are a card.
As John Henry's cousin Eddie used to say of the Vietnamese, "If they don't like what we're doin' for ‘em, why don't they just go back where they come from?"
Another knee slapper.
OK, if this is the situation -- and it's certainly what's being reported -- I don't get why we're still hearing Bushies saying, "Ha, ha, ha; we won the war." Was there anyone who said we wouldn't?
Nope. But there were lots of people on the left saying it would be a quagmire with thousands of American soldiers dead and 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead.
Since I am in the happy position of having predicted a short, easy war and the peace from hell,
Congrats. You finally got sumpin' right. Do you want an award?
I think I'm looking like a genius prognosticator about now.
Cool. Where's the Dow gonna be in six months?
I can't figure out why the Republicans are happy about this.
The war was won in three weeks and came in under budget. What's not to be happy about?
Sure, it was a great photo-op for the president on the aircraft carrier, but if you think the American people won't notice $20 billion a year because of some nice pictures, you have sadly underestimated the common sense of this nation.
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. This is the country that elected Bill Clinton twice.
I realize that what we see depends on where we stand, but there is a substantial body of emerging fact here, none of it encouraging for optimists.
I don't know. I'm usually pessimistic, and I'm encouraged by what's gone on so far.
We may yet see hopeful developments, but damned if I can see any cause for celebration now, or even for building a presidential re-election campaign around footage of our triumphant pres flying out to the aircraft carrier.
Bush on the aircraft carrier sure did piss off the liberals didn't it?
There's a very real possibility that by November 2004, Republicans will very much want everybody to forget the war now called Dubya Dubya II. (Sorry, I don't know whom to credit for that one, but it's not original with me.)
No. I think it's gonna be Dimocrats who will want to forget about it.
I've got an even-money bet out that says more Americans will be killed in the peace than in the war and more Iraqis will be killed by Americans in the peace than in the war. Not the first time I've had a bet out that I hoped I'd lose.
I think she's right about the Americans being killed, because since there is anarchy in Iraq, and the Religion of Peace™ is gonna want to kill as many Americans as possible, it will take time to pacify the country. As for the Iraqis, how many died in the war? We need to know that before we can make a comparison. And if they die, it will be because the Religion on Peace™ sent them off to blow themselves up, or they get killed attacking Americans.
So here we have it: typical nattering negativity. Any suggestions on what would correct all the problems Molly has listed? Nope. Bush bad. That's pretty much all the left has to say. And as long as that's all they have to say, it looks like the 2004 election will be a disaster for the Dimocrats.
And that would be a good thing.