What I heard last night

So I decided to listen to the President last night. I usually don’t because I always know exactly what he’s going to say, but I figured “ten minutes…what could it hurt?” He said exactly what I figured he would say;

Blah, blah, blah…Bush’s fault…blah, blah, blah…eye off the ball…blah, blah, blah, if you Taliban guys can hold off for three years, we’ll be outa there and it’s all yours…blah, blah, blah, [insert pretty words to make us feel good about ourselves for cutting and running] blah, blah, ninja robot zombies will rule the world.

And then this morning, I switched on the TV and the O’Reilly Show had VoteVet’s Wesley Clark on who tried to revise history by saying out loud that we went to Afghanistan, not to defeat the Taliban but to capture or kill bin Laden. What? Was Clark even paying attention. The initial phase of the war was to support the Northern Alliance so they could topple the Taliban from power because they created the environment in which al Qaeda and bin Laden could safely operate and launch their attacks on the world. Of course, that’s Clark’s way of revising events to excuse the President’s decision to cut and run slowly.

Clark is a f**king moron. Speaking of morons and VoteVets, I had a brief exchange yesterday with Brian McGough, formerly of VoteVets, currently of the Veterans Affairs Department, like the rest of those unemployable VoteVets losers. Apparently he’s on a hair trigger whenever my name is mentioned because of the review I wrote for his wife’s book. But he tried to tell me that our war in Afghanistan was an emotional response from the beginning. Really? We went to Afghanistan solely for revenge? I thought it was to cleanse that which Clinton had allowed to fester for five years.

Yeah, we can be happy for the troops who are coming home and getting some down time, but don’t forget that the burden of the war will fall on the shoulders of others who remain in that shit hole. The war isn’t over, there are just fewer Americans slated to be engaged…until the next attack in this country.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics