Hail to the Chimp
Thursday night, our president will address the nation, and show us the way forward.
The lefty bloggers love it* when I write stuff like that. Sounds so reverential. Mindless and ass-kissy. Like I’m worshipping my Chimpy god. What they don’t like to admit, however, is that I’m right. What he says he is going to do, he does. He is still the president. He got elected in 2000, confirmed by the recounts, the courts, and more recounts by newspapers and universities. Got re-elected in 2004. Then, in 2006, he failed to get unelected. He’s still calling the shots. Unlike some mandate-empowered people I could name. No impeachment. No immediate abandonment. No withdrawal at all unless conditions on the ground support it, according to this report.
But don’t take my word for it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
“Please. It’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people that that is a new direction in Iraq,” she said. “We’re as disappointed as the public is that the president has a tin ear to their opinion on this war.”
Nancy, in her disappointment, knows who’s running the show. Not her. But about that public opinion thing, that is one thing that works for Nancy, because with polls, you get to pick what you like. Polls, when it comes down to it, are garbage. Certainly no way to run a government, and no way to run a war. There are the ones that say a majority of people don’t like the war and want out. And then there are the ones that say a majority of people want to win. If I had to pick a poll to run the war by, I’d pick that one. Here’s a poll for you: at least 1/300 millionth of Americans think it must suck to back people who want to surrender and can’t even manage that. That was me. I just polled myself.
* You have to scroll through a lot of obsessive blah blah blah and a couple of updates in the sockpuppet’s post to get to the Crit mockery. That guy might even be more longwinded and pedantic than me … nah, probably not.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:49 pm on Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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September 12th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Nancy, in her disappointment, knows who’s running the show. Not her.
Praise be to God!
September 12th, 2007 at 1:48 am
Oh, and by the way….you’ve been Blessed by The Greenwald™. This is only slightly better than being visited by the THE ALPHTARD™.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:32 am
If you want to win, and get your troops home, do it the right way - increase the army size and send more troops - enough troops to control borders with Iran, control the rest of the country, back up the Iraqi forces. The surge has worked, but hasn’t been able to cover the whole country.
All US politicians who don’t want to lose seem to want to do the job with the minimum possible number of troops and none to spare. That increases how long it takes, increases the casualties (the surge has reduced US casualties), leaves more Iraqi’s without security and lets terrorists kill more Iraqis.
Why not try to win the war faster and better?
September 12th, 2007 at 11:56 am
Winning means leaving behind a society that is willing to get their act together and redevelop an arab political identity that isn’t founded on self-pitying conspiracy theories. If we had 400,000 boots to put on the ground and put them there, the Iraqi political class would not have had to grow up, a process that is ongoing. For how long it takes, direct your gaze to Romania and Bulgaria who are infinitely improved over their 1989 positions but certainly not done yet.
One of the great reasons why all of Iraq’s neighbors are not doing their share to stabilize Iraq and wish them well is that if Iraq succeeds (as the US hopes it will) they will be destabilized. You can tell stories about how different the US or France is and how the model of democratic republicanism and freedom won’t translate from these far off lands but Iraq? If they can do it, the local potentates have no excuse.
So Iraqis die and create national myths of their brave patriots bleeding for a free Iraq as we have our own myths about our founding fathers. And the Coalition provides a ceiling past which insurgents can’t progress but require the Iraqis to grow up enough to put an end to the fighting themselves. That’s the plan. It’s always been the plan and I have blog posts from 2003 laying this out (my planting a liberty tree series).
A 400,000 occupation force would not have wounded Iraqi pride any less than our current force levels. It would have just created another arrested development state whose political culture never gets around to growing up. See Schroeder’s Germany and Chirac’s France. It’s not a left/right thing. It’s a maturity thing. The arabs can do better and the Iraqis will bleed until they do. They seem to be catching on.
September 12th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
It’s hard enough to get a message out to the people that they’ll understand, but even harder when you have to do it over the screeches and feces-flinging of hysterical surrender monkeys. And I agree, the president doesn’t do this very well, which has caused him no end of trouble. But as you said, he does what he says he’ll do, and that’s rare enough in a politician.
September 13th, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Well, he might show YOU the way forward. Most of us (and by us I mean most people in this country, according to polls) really do not give a crap about ANYTHING he has to say.
Even in your post, you say, “What he says he is going to do, he does. He is still the president.” Guess so, but it really is all about him, isn’t it? No one else’s opinion, or actual facts, mean anything, do they?
And yes, it does sound mindless and kissassy. You do sound like you are worshipping your chimpy god, you manly-man!
September 13th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Glenn, commenting on your last love letter:
He is strong and he is wise and he will protect us. Be ready. Tonight, the Leader “will address us” and “show us the way forward.”
Hail Bush, Holy Bush, Bush of Power and Might. Heaven and earth are filled with the Glory of Bush…
And the screams of his victims…