Last "Throes"

I don't like to get political (I'd much rather get physical . . ain't that right Olivia Newton John) but after watching the Daily Show last night, I was a bit incensed by the outlook of the Iraq conflict. Here we have the vice president Dick Cheney proclaiming on the Larry King Show that the insurgency was in it's "last throes" . . . only to have the general in charge of the operations making an appearance and saying that the violence has escalated. Then, you have Cheney trying to cover his ass saying that he was minsunderstood. That the last throes could be placid or violent. I don't get that. Why doesn't he just admit that he has his head up his ass? No, wouldn't want honesty in the White House . . . or the off-White House, or wherever the VP resides at.

Then, they show Donald Rumsfeld trying to back up his buddy Dick (if that sounded dirty . . . then good!). He also is trying to work around the definition of "throes" and puts down a timeline of anywhere between 2 - 12 years that these last throes will last. Twelve years!! Two years ago he wasn't sure if the conflict would last "6 days, 6 weeks, even 6 months". Now, he's sure that it's going to last at the most 12 years. Great, way to mishandle that issue. What a giant cluster-fuck this Iraq thing has become. Might as well bomb Iran while we're out there. Let our troops wander into Syria. Why not? We're there for the long run. I just would like to personally slap each and every one of the millions of Americans that helped elect this administration into a second term of office. The GW fluke should have ended in 2004. Now, we're stuck with these bastards 'til 2008.

Not only are they fixing to fuck up the military, sending our loved ones (both my brother and sister are marines) overseas to fight their personal vendettas (Hussein wanted to kill my daddy, I'll show him - GW Bush), but you know they'll be crippling the economy as well. With paying for the protracted war, the mythical privatization of the social security (great . . . you mean, all that money that I paid out to Social Security . . . I'm not going to see when I'm retired . . .oh yeah, you're great), and the tax rebates to the rich (how does this rebate check of $100 benefit me?) are going to leave this country in some sort of deep ruin.

At this rate, Canada is starting to look better and better each day.