Lousianna Suffers For W's "Elective Surgery"

[salvorhardin]

David Brin, thoughtful as always, talks about how the Iraq war has cost us on the homefront with so many of our National Guard troops, who could be helping out in Katrina's wake, called into service in Iraq. He has touched on what he perceives as the decimation of the U.S. officer corps. in past blog entries. In this current entry he also offers up a (hesitant) paranoid conspiracy theory of his own.

My own take is that I sincerely doubt any conspiracy theories. However, if such conspiracies were true then would we not consider the Bush administration as enemies of the state? Now consider that the sheer incompetence, idiocy and political divisiveness of the neocons alone adequately explain the policies of this adminsitration (I believe they do). Should not their effect, which is indistinguishable from a high level conspiracy to do harm to the U.S., cause us to consider the Bush adminsitration as enemies of the state?

A brief excerpt and link...

...here’s the first state to face a major civil emergency while much of its National Guard has been yanked away to some foreign land.

This is yet another way to view the foolishness of our leaders. Their inability to really consider that the world is dangerous. Here’s a way to put it: the metaphor for this Iraq War should be ELECTIVE SURGERY.

At first, we were urgently told it was an EMERGENCY ROOM PROCEDURE, back during the lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction. No time to talk, or plan or persuade allies, or ponder the most efficient means of achieving desired ends. If we did not act fast, Saddam would fry our babies!

Now we are told that reason never mattered, after all. The real purpose was always to liberate oppressed people and spread freedom.
http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2005/08/louisiana-suffers-for-ws-elective.html

[salvorhardin]

1. Kick

For the hell of it.