
Please allow me some small hubris so I can educate the relatively less informed fellow Americans who will be voting. Sen John Warner today came back downbeat and worried about Iraq ( a rightwing conservative Senator). Please let me SHARE some FACTS, because we in Science and Academia are all about data and facts and observable data.
Anyone who had an iota of commonsense (examples would be Bush-41, Clinton etc) would have realized that until Saddam took control Iraq had successive violent unstable governments because of the nature of the region. Bush would not know it because he was clueless. But it is FACT, that the standing joke was that at Iraq's State Functions you stay the heck away from the President because you never know when he will be assassinated. My father related this to me back in 1975 when Ali Bakr was still the President of Iraq, when my old man went on an official visit to Iraq which used to give a lot of aid to poor third world nations.
For ignoramuses , Ali-Bakr was the President at that time; Saddam was his VEEP; all of them military type folks. Saddam ousted his mentor Ali-Bakr "peacefully and he retired because of ill health" and Saddam took over a time when oil money was pouring in at a rate. He, like most other MidEast degenerates developed their nation's infrastructure rapidly. There were building booms and amazing development and all these nations hired skilled and semi skilled labor by the MILLIONS from S.Asia(specially India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan and Bangladesh). Sri Lankan workers flooded Saudi, Iraq, Kuwait etc and housemaids were also in great demand.
And Ah of course the Big ugly Bear (being the Soviets) armed Iraq and the Great Eagle(being us) armed the Iranian pricktator the Shah. They both salivated at the prospect of selling anything and everything possible to them for moola lotsa lotsa moolah. Those oil rich Arabs loved big toys, we loved their money. The Persian Shah also loved our toys and even our 5MegaWatt Nuclear Reactor!!!
So similar to other feudalocracies or one-man regimes in the region, Saddam was the only one able to lead such a fissiparous disunited bickering Arab nation for the longest period in Iraq's modern history. (Baath party rule).
We did not give a damn about who he killed and those trials we seem to want to broadcast to obfuscate issues All happened at a time when WE SIDED with him because those mad Shia mullahs in Iran were a bigger threat to us(why? because of what we did in Iran!!) .
Now the ancient hatreds and differences in Iraq have caused chaos for us and we are responsible for rushing in. Don't blame the Iraqi leaders, blame our lying utterly incompetent leaders and our societal collective HUBRIS.
The senate committee report has already debunked the lies and false connections ad infinitum and yet the Cheneys of the world LIE TO US. It makes me very sad that in this hallowed premise we fixate on a former President's philandering with an adult intern under mutual consent to deflect heat off of the PRESENT chaos we have self inflicted upon ourselves due to our IGNORANCE, HUBRIS and downright racial prejudices. Until this regime, we always had a great protocol in the US: we NEVER refer to previous Presidencies or pass the buck on to them to deflect heat off our follies. Reagan didn't do it. 41 didn't do it. Clinton didn't do it, even Mister Peanut Grin didn't do it.
Apparently the 3000 Iraqis dying a month are just colored folks not worthy of even a comma? And young American lives lost? 2735 today. Cost 600 BILLION? our religious extremist leaders who are in denial are the ones to blame Senator Jack Warner not those Imperially selected folks we have over there. Our hubris is what caused this and is continuing to kill an average of 3000 Iraqis a month. IT IS A COMMA SAYS THE Greatest leader of the freeworld! A COMMA?
We are in an infinite loop;. The getting out comes when the system is overloaded and we run out of RAM. To illustrate it, here is the loop to define the issue.
You all know that in some programming languages that a String variable is automatically initialized to nullString right? (Sen Warner also wants to withdraw if things are not better by Dec). What do we do now? Smear him and call him names?
Denial for me is the state of mind when I think I am tall, handsome, and a stud. But that don't cause no world chaos do it? If there is democracy and elections in Pakistan or Saudi who will sweep the polls? the extremists because we have added in leaps and bounds to their cause by the mess we created in Iraq.
Evaluate the following loop and when it exits we win. God bless all of you.
Dim invasion as String
Do While invasion x<>"Chaos"
If invasion="Chaos" then
Exit While
Else
invasion= "stay the course"
End if
Loop
Ipso Facto.
HERE IS THE WAPO ARTICLE I refer to::::::::::::
Warner Downbeat After Iraq TripU.S. at Risk of Losing Bid to Control Baghdad, Senator Says
By Josh WhiteWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, October 6, 2006; A03
The Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday offered a stark assessment of the situation in Iraq after a trip there this week, saying that parts of the country have taken "steps backwards" and that the United States is at risk of losing the campaign to control an increasingly violent Baghdad.
Sen. John W. Warner (Va.) told reporters on Capitol Hill that the Iraqi government is having trouble making strides and is incapable of providing even basic human necessities to people in certain areas of the country. Though Warner praised U.S. efforts to keep Iraq under control, he was far less optimistic about the situation there than he had been over the past three years.
Echoing the sentiments of several leading Democrats on his committee, Warner said he believes the United States may have to reevaluate its approach in Iraq if the situation does not improve dramatically over the next several months.
"I assure you, in two or three months, if this thing hasn't come to fruition and if this level of violence is not under control and this government able to function, I think it's a responsibility of our government internally to determine: Is there a change of course that we should take?" Warner said. "And I wouldn't take off the table any option at this time."
Warner and other senators traveled to Jordan, Iraq and Israel this week to discuss the security situation and to evaluate the progress of the Iraqi government. He said U.S. military commanders believe there is no way to reduce the number of U.S. troops in the region in the foreseeable future because of a steady increase in the level of violence, and he added that it is important to acknowledge the civil insurrection, sectarian violence, "unacceptable level" of killings and "heavy casualties" among U.S. forces there.
Sen. Carl M. Levin (Mich.), the committee's ranking Democrat, who was on the same trip, called yesterday for a change in dynamic in Iraq if the government continues to falter in the coming months.
Warner blamed the Iraqi leaders for failing to improve conditions. "You do not see them taking the levers of sovereignty and pulling and pushing them and doing what is necessary to bring about a situation in Iraq whereby the people are able to live, have sufficient food and fresh water, and have a sense of confidence in their government that they're going forward," Warner said.
But he said the situation is not beyond repair. "We're not going to give up hope yet. Let's give it more time to work."
Warner acknowledged that, before the invasion of Iraq, there was a lack of understanding among members of Congress about how much it would take to give Iraq full sovereignty. He blamed himself for not aggressively asking such questions before the war.
© 2006 The Washington Post Company
I have never seen string theory as a political metaphor. My hat is off to you sir...
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