OK, let's see. Your bogus war in a foreign land is going all quagmire. Your party was ceremoniously dumped out of power in the midterm elections. And your approval rating for said war is rapidly approaching your shoe size. You go away and think reallllly hard about what to do next and your best option is . . . SEND MORE OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE OFF TO DIE?
Give Duhbya credit for one thing - he does what he thinks is right, regardless of what anybody else thinks. The Iraqi government doesn't want any more US troops in their country. The newly empowered Democrats are itching for a fight and even some Republicans aren't buying in this time.
Puts one in mind of this exchange from Blackadder's WWI version (shamelessly stolen from DailyKos):
GENERAL: Now, Field Marshal Hague has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.If only Duhbya were trying to be funny.
CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: Ah, would this brilliant plan involve us climbing out of our trenches and walking very slowly towards the enemy, sir?
CAPTAIN DARLING: How could you possibly know that Blackadder, it's classified information?
CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: It's the same plan that we used last time, and the seventeen times before that.
GENERAL: Ex... ex... ex... actly! And that is what is so brilliant about it! It will catch the watchful Hun totally off guard. Doing precisely what we've done eighteen times before is exactly the last thing they'll expect us to do this time!
There is, however, one small problem.
CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: That everyone always gets slaughtered in the first ten seconds?
GENERAL: That's right. And Field Marshal Hague is worried that this may be depressing the men a tad. So, he's looking to find a way to cheer them up.
CAPTAIN BLACKADDER: Well, his resignation and suicide would seem the obvious.
UPDATE: Holy shit, did Keith Olberman just let Duhbya have it in one of his "Special Statements." I'll link to the video, if I come across it.
2 comments:
It's like someone playing blackjack. When you are desperate, you double down. Not when things are going well, but when you got $20 left and you only hope to win one more hand. W is doubling down, but with people. He should have been escorted out of the casino a long time ago.
He reminds me of a playground bully who keeps picking fights, even after all his cronies have taken their bikes and gone home. Usually, that kid never has a clue until he finally gets his ass kicked by someone bigger and badder. Unfortunately for us, if Duhbya gets his ass handed to him, so do we (and so do countless Iraqi civilians, too!)
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