Oooo-kay.
US intelligence warns of 'mini-Tet' in Iraq
A day after George Bush compared the potential consequences of exiting Iraq to the aftermath of the Vietnam conflict, US intelligence will today warn that extremists could create a "mini-Tet" in the country, an official revealed. [...]
(via The Guardian)
You'd think they'd be embarrassed to peddle this tripe. It's bad enough that a draft dodger comes out and inaccurately compares Iraq to Vietnam, but now the Pentagon is leaping on this bandwagon and pinning up Tet as an excuse for the USA still losing the war, despite the much-ballyhooed-in-the-US-press "surge" that's been going on for the last 6 or 9 months.
I'd have STFU'ed at the point where Maximum Leader Genius said he was perfectly willing to kill off another 50,000 American soldiers (and fuck-only-knows how many more Iraqi civilians. Something around 3% of the population of that country has been killed off thanks to our botched illegal war, and another 15% have either dislocated or forced out of the country due to religious leaders leaping enthusiastically on the ethnic cleansing bandwagon that is so popular these days. If the American Imperium is going to stick it out in Iraq until 50,000 US soldiers have died it's quite possible that the USA will become #1 in the genocide olympics as well.) Popping up to say "oh, yes, the resistance is strong enough that they're probably doing to engage in massive countrywide battles with regular military units that they can sacrifice. And they're planning on doing this any day now." doesn't strike me as a particularly productive use of the radiowaves.
But I suppose I do need to consider that the B*sh junta doesn't care about the state of the troops just as long as an Imperial Guard survives to protect Mount Doom, and if it costs a million or so bodies to keep the support of the 26% of this country that still worships the Boy King that's simply good politics. That 26% already believes the Dolchstoßlegende, so murdering another 50,000 soldiers will just reinforce their ignorant delusions and keep them nice and sheeplike.
And it's not as if I expected any sense of shame, let alone simple human decency, from a government that tortures its own citizens, uses natural disasters to do its own ethnic cleansing, and that runs its very own gulag archipelago.
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Ya, but it may be a few more days yet.
Why?
Because, apparently, it’s taking a bit longer than they thought it would to move Tonkin over to the Persian Gulf.
btw - wasn’t Wayne Morse from Oregon?
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