This Space for Rent

Um, hello? They’re the Evil Party, remember?

The NYTimes columnist Bob Herbert has an op-ed that lays out, in a nice executive summary, just how badly the B*sh junta has mismanaged the invasion of Iraq, and mentions a few times that it might have been a good idea if Maximum Leader Genius had asked his father for advice (and then, presumably, he would have continued to look for Osama bin Laden [psst. It's spelled C-r-a-w-f-o-r-d; look for the villa with the secret service detail] instead of charging headlong into Iraq.)

Well, sure, that would have been a good idea if the Coward in Chief wasn't a member of the Evil Party, and if his backers weren't interested in using Iraq as a way of funnelling money out of the US Treasury. But, he is a member of the Evil Party, and if you're as corrupt as only the Evil Party leadership can be, Iraq is turning out to have a couple of really good things going for it:

  1. I've seen reports that say that as much as US$10 billion dollars have just disappeared somewhere between Washington, DC and Baghdad, Iraq, and that's not including the
  2. Huge, and documented, cost overruns and fraudulent billings from large defense contractors that just happen to be owned and operated by good friends of the B*sh junta.

And, as long as the invasion is being run as if the joint chiefs of staff were being directed by a trained monkey, it's not as if Mission Accomplished will ever get in the way of the looting of the treasury.

The debasement of everything the United States has ever stood for, well, shoot, that's just a little something extra.

So, no, Maximum Leader Genius got just the advice he needed. It's certainly not what the United States needed, but the fascists who run the Evil Party don't give a flying fuck about the United States, as long as they can kill it and loot it at the same time.

(link via The Sideshow)