••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Friday, September 02, 2005

N.O. response

back in '02, when gwb beat his wardrum louder and louder while at the same time insisting to the american people and congress and the UN that he didn't want war, at first i thought war a foregone conclusion, but then i heard somebody on tv—maybe chris matthews or charlie rose—ask a guest if war was inevitable or was bush playing poker, so i thought maybe that was it: bush might be bluffing to get saddam to let inspectors in, and congress's force authorization resolution might be part of the bluff, like a union passing a strike vote when they don't want to strike but want to put more pressure on management at the bargaining table, so maybe i should give bush the benefit of the doubt.

then he started calling up the national guard.

i thought: isn't this carrying the bluff a bit far? i mean, he's sending folk overseas, pulling them out of jobs, disrupting families, obstructing commerce....

it never occurred to me that we might also need the guard at home for an emergency.

then i thought, well, it's a little far-fetched, but maybe he thinks he has to make it ultra-realistic to convince saddam it's no bluff.

then saddam let the inspectors in, but bush didn't deactivate the guard, and i was fast losing hope for peace, but i thought maybe he wants to keep the pressure on so saddam won't turn round and kick out the inspectors as soon as he thinks he's in the clear....

then came all the bushit about aluminum tubes and mobile labs and uranium from africa, and most of it got debunked by blix and elbaradei yet powell repeated it anyway, but bush said he didn't want regime change, just to disarm saddam, so i kept hoping he was telling the truth for once....

then all the bush leaguers dropped the pretense and started talking regime change, then bush gave saddam 3 days to get out of town then tried to off him 2 days later and then invaded.

fast forward 2 years, 5 months.

here's that emergency i didn't think of, but i don't run the government, so it's not my job to be ready for stuff like that. it's bush's job, cheney's job, hastert's job, frist's job.

where's the money and manpower?

georgie-boy calls up his old man and his other favorite ex-prez to raise funds again.

the guard are still in iraq.

1 comment:

  1. I saw a story about New Hampshire National Guardsmen who had just come back from Iraq and had to turn around and go to New Orleans. They were only too happy to go, finally doing the job they thought they had signed up for in the first place. I believe we are still waiting for the return of the Louisiana Guardsmen from Iraq. They still don't know if they have homes to return to.

    ReplyDelete