BloggeRhythms 9/1/2010

TNBNT -but the president did deliver a speech last night, about the troop withdrawal from Iraq. And it must have been really important, because I had to search through a whole day's worth of other stories to find out about it. Seemed to me, nobody cared much about what he had to say on the subject, thus it wasn't given much attention or space in the news.

What's most interesting though is, that 50,000 U.S. troops will remain in Iraq in a so-called "advisory" capacity, which means they're relieved from the shooting war. And, I suppose, if you buy that rhetoric, our guys will just be hanging around, helping the Iraqis run their country.

But, I find that hard to believe. Because it seems that the withdrawal's simply the fulfillment of a campaign promise to have our troops out by the end of August 2010 (except for the 50,000 advisors left behind.) And, should the situation heat up again over there, I think we'll be right back in the middle of the warfare loop in a heartbeat. Of course, there's also the droves of mercenaries, CIA folks and Haliburton people who don't get mentioned at all.

Which leads me to ask, if Haliburton was the Devil incarnate, and ripping off U.S. funds in carloads as the president insisted during the last campaign -how come they're still there with larger contracts than ever from the Pentagon? Could it be, as the last president said, they're the only people on Earth who know how to do what they do?

But, now that our war mongering is over, and we're done in Iraq, I guess we can concentrate on the anti-war president's pet project. Leveling Afghanistan. Because as anyone can plainly see, an uprising anti-American like Saddam was never a threat, regardless of what was learned about him. But, those guys living in holes in Afghanistan, who'd never be able to organize themselves into any kind of real threat because they don't even get along with each other, are worth the billions we're using against them.

And, speaking of funds, the president mournfully mentioned the huge expense of the Iraq war due to the insistence of the last administration to enter that fray. But if he'd have done his homework he'd have found that the costs of Iraq were minimal as incursions like that usually go, and aren't a drop in the bucket compared to the financial holocaust caused by his own party's destruction of the world-wide real estate business, stock exchanges, banking system, automobile debacle, insurance industry and greater and greater daily reliance on foreign oil.

So, I guess as I've typed here before, it only matters what corners they put the mirrors in when politicians want to make a point. But, that's how they exist, and all they know how to do, and so be it. The real crime though is, listening to them, or worse..keeping them in office.

That's it for today folks.

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