Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Kimmet: No Permanent US Miltary Bases in Iraq

According to this Monsters and Critics article, Brigadier General Mark Kimmet has said the US will not retain US military bases in Iraq, so the locals can take control of the situation.

Military strategist and angry, falafel lovin', right-wing pundit extraordinaire, Bill O'Reilly agrees:

Bill O'Reilly suggested that the United States "hand over everything to the Iraqis as fast as humanly possible" because "[t]here are so many nuts in the country -- so many crazies -- that we can't control them." O'Reilly then claimed that the "big mistake" was actually "the crazy-people* underestimation."


*That's Pentagon lingo for "terrorists" or left-wing lingo for "the entire Republican bunch in DC".

Considering that Iraq is now on the brink of civil war, the right-wing is apparently embracing the "cut & run" meme. Remember that meme? The one they used to accuse any Democrat who suggested troop withdrawal - like that old, crazy Democratic fart who knows nothing about war: John Murtha - as being treasonous? One man's treason is another man's "new and improved Bush policy", it appears.

My guess is that this year's October Surprise will be a free ticket home for Christmas for a large number of US troops - just in time for Election 2006. Of course, according to the plan, that will mean that Iraq will have had to take better control of its security, but that shouldn't be a problem since the Bush government is blackmailing them by threatening to withdraw aid if they don't smarten up and do democracy the American Way - The Bush Way. (How else can Bush start to recover from the ridiculous amount of debt he's created? See? It's win/win. Of course, by then, Iraq will be hell on earth as it's ravaged by unrelenting sectarian violence, but hey - Bush gave them democracy and freedom - what else could they possibly want?)

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