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Quick Thoughts

I have been fighting a nasty cold for the past few days, so I have been a bit out of it. Anyway, while working today I made the mistake of listening to Gen. Petraeus’ testimony before the House. I was struck by the blatant duplicity and obfuscation of the report he offered. His, and his supporters, constant over-hyping of the al-Anbar lie and ‘massaging’ of data was just appalling. Watching Petraeus on c-spann gave me flashbacks to my youth when I saw Gen. Westmoreland peddle his spin before congress nearly forty years ago. I have written before that I do not believe this administration will ever leave Iraq for geo-political reasons, but their need to keep up this facade that ‘we are making progress’ or that ‘we are fighting al-Qaeda’ is just infuriating. The entire purpose of todays farce was to create enough confusion to maintain the political bickering, ensuring that congress will be too befuddled or afraid to act.

I am also aware that today is the day before the anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001. Six years later my heart remains saddened and troubled for those who lost loved ones and who continue to suffer in the aftermath. But I also find myself dreading the exploitation of anniversary. I fully expect the President and his supporters to again make use of this tragedy to aggrandize themselves and their disastrous policies. To watch these men exploit their own incompetence to seize more power and sacrifice more soldiers and waste more money is just galling. If these people ever had any sense of decency or respect they would just keep quiet this anniversary and let it pass without trying to exploit the fear or jingoism they have mired themselves  in for the past six year. But I doubt they have they have the humanity to keep their mouths shut.

This entry was posted by steve on Monday, September 10th, 2007 at 11:55 pm and is filed under Misc. Ramblings, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.