Another blithering performance by the blitherer in charge*...

[Javaman]

What was that speech last night? Did anyone really listen to what our blitherer* said? He didn't say anything about helping Iraq, he didn't say anything about giving them more money, he didn't say that it wasn't an open ended commitment. What he did say is more of the same wrapped up in poorly written political prose.

For what purpose? two. He had to say something because the nation is sick and tire of this thing that has mutated into a chaos filled civil war in Iraq. And the other, and more importantly, he had to pay lip service to the real power in our government. The defense contractors.

That's really what all this is about, nothing more, nothing less.

In his farewell speech, President Eisenhower warned us of the Military Industrial Complex. It was in it's infancy then. Viet Nam gave it legs and the Reagan era gave it life and power.

Today what we are treated to is an administration that can't move, talk, eat, sleep or blink without first consulting the mega weapons contractors.

As we pile more and more money on Iraq, 6.5 billion alone for The Blitherer's* "surge*, who is going to get that money, the troops? Keep guessing. In the last round of funds that went to Iraq, not a dime went to the troops. It goes right into the contractors pockets.

For argument sake, I include Bechtel, KBR and Haliburton as co-conspirators in the military industrial complex and lump them right along with heavy weapons manufactures.

As he spews one rehashed idea after another at us, I see nothing but an empty suit filled with catch phrases and sound bites, but then again has this administration really been anything more than that?

Yesterday, I stated in a thread that the Blitherer's* speech last night had the potential to be the Nixon moment of his* presidency. Where by, when Nixon claimed, "he was not a crook". Last night we were treated to that same moment, only not in a catchy sound bite, but in a long winded rehash of more of the same.

Where as that one phrase defined the Nixon administration, superfluous meaningless phrases repeated adnausium are the mark of this one.

"Turning the corner, light at the end of the tunnel, last throes", etc. These statements are the mark of a administration that has run out cover up options, their old gags no longer work and haven't worked for the past 2 years. After 6 years of fluff, the American public have shaken off the scales from their eyes and want substance. You can only eat candy so long before you want to throw up.

We want a policy, we want a direction, but all we got last night was more of the same vulgarities.

And that is done purposely, because once real bench marks are stated, once a real plan is laid out, once a real mission is defined, then he*, the blither*, becomes truly responsible. And the gravy train ends for the defense contractors.

But like we have seen these past 6 years, we never have seen him take responsibility or have a regret for anything he has done to this nation or the nation of Iraq.

The only way he takes responsibility is via third person. "it's my fault because others screwed up", not because his lack of vision, lack of perspective, lack of diplomacy, lack of ability, lack of insight, lack of nuance, but instead, because the lack of others to do "their" jobs.

Always somebody else's fault.

It would be nice if for once he* would actually do some of that hard work he* once squawked about.

But given the fact that he has effectively painted this nation into a corner, there is only two ways out of a situation like that. Wait till the paint dries, which seems to be the blitherer's* option or cut a hole in the wall and get the hell out.