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saint_monkeyin a press conference today, the president said that those that fire on american troops are actually firing on the iraqi people. it will be a tough sell, what with the american flags on their uniforms and all, but we hope to make it work by year's end.
but obviously it doesn't go both ways, because american soldiers killed a couple of iraqi people just today... (true, i'd have shot them too, they ran a checkpoint, but still...) i can't imagine what being in a terror cell is like when the president starts making statements like that... it must be hard to draw the lines in a terror campaign when if you fire at american soldiers, you are actually firing at yourself, while the americans can fire on you and still be firing on THE ENEMY. (or the evildoers, or whatever they are today, satanists, perhaps) it is like some scheme Bugs Bunny would cook up. "Nah doc.... You can't fire on me, cause.... I'm actually you. Fire on THAT guy over there, he's really ME."
that's what i like about Bush... if you don't like the reality of the situation, substitute it with something you do like....it is all just semantics anyhow. it's not about oil, it is about the weapons of mass destruction, or regime change, or (my personal favorite) securing the riches of the iraqi people. (which reminds me, my car has been running about a quart low on "the riches of the iraqi people" for a while now, i need to go get a "riches of the iraqi people" change.) as if changing the textual reality of a situation makes the ACTUAL reality of the situation better. (There are many examples, among them: "Enemy Combatant" and "Jobless Recovery," etc) Or by somehow defining the people you see as your occupiers as citizens, is he hoping to turn the people of Iraq to him, or maybe he hopes to make the heartless Fedayin Al Saddam feel GUILTY about shooting RPG's at Americans (oops, I mean, "The Iraqi People?") I really don't see the sense of the statement. How is it NOT supposed to sound imperialist to the Iraqis that are still our friends?
But as i think about it.. i really wonder... there is no real government in iraq right now, and the UN sort of has granted the US temporary authority over there... I wonder if this casual statement really HAS in ACTUALITY granted US Soldiers Iraqi Citizenship? And if so, i wonder if this is his way of rigging any future Iraqi election... if all these american soldiers are iraqi citizens, that is going to make quite a voting bloc. Carl Rove is probably already at work on a way to make it stick.
but obviously it doesn't go both ways, because american soldiers killed a couple of iraqi people just today... (true, i'd have shot them too, they ran a checkpoint, but still...) i can't imagine what being in a terror cell is like when the president starts making statements like that... it must be hard to draw the lines in a terror campaign when if you fire at american soldiers, you are actually firing at yourself, while the americans can fire on you and still be firing on THE ENEMY. (or the evildoers, or whatever they are today, satanists, perhaps) it is like some scheme Bugs Bunny would cook up. "Nah doc.... You can't fire on me, cause.... I'm actually you. Fire on THAT guy over there, he's really ME."
that's what i like about Bush... if you don't like the reality of the situation, substitute it with something you do like....it is all just semantics anyhow. it's not about oil, it is about the weapons of mass destruction, or regime change, or (my personal favorite) securing the riches of the iraqi people. (which reminds me, my car has been running about a quart low on "the riches of the iraqi people" for a while now, i need to go get a "riches of the iraqi people" change.) as if changing the textual reality of a situation makes the ACTUAL reality of the situation better. (There are many examples, among them: "Enemy Combatant" and "Jobless Recovery," etc) Or by somehow defining the people you see as your occupiers as citizens, is he hoping to turn the people of Iraq to him, or maybe he hopes to make the heartless Fedayin Al Saddam feel GUILTY about shooting RPG's at Americans (oops, I mean, "The Iraqi People?") I really don't see the sense of the statement. How is it NOT supposed to sound imperialist to the Iraqis that are still our friends?
But as i think about it.. i really wonder... there is no real government in iraq right now, and the UN sort of has granted the US temporary authority over there... I wonder if this casual statement really HAS in ACTUALITY granted US Soldiers Iraqi Citizenship? And if so, i wonder if this is his way of rigging any future Iraqi election... if all these american soldiers are iraqi citizens, that is going to make quite a voting bloc. Carl Rove is probably already at work on a way to make it stick.
