Blame Canada

So.. what to do when your pet war turns into a bloody unmitigated mess? Why.. blame liberals of course!

I think I wrote about this phenomenon some months back when it appeared that despite the best intentions of our military, the civilian leadership was far too inept to understand the complexities they were dealing with. I warned that the right-wing loons were going to start pointing their angry fingers at the "liberals" for botching the war.

Yes, a classic example of this from Joseph Goebbels, Douglas V. Gibbs today.

Keep in mind that the Republican party controlled both houses of Congress and the Executive when the war was started, all the way up to the last mid-term election. Keep in mind that the Republican civilian leadership controlled every policy decision, and keep in mind that the military has it's own code of uniform justice.

Now - lets see how the liberals, with no real power, have caused the death of American soldiers, and botched this war.

The mainstream media simultaneously decided that the blast walls that are planned to be erected around Baghdad nighborhoods are a bad idea, and claim that there is a growing outcry from Iraqis that the barriers will fuel sectarian discord.

The "growing outcry" actually came from Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, as well as both the Iraqi Shiite's and Sunni's. The liberals must have a method of mind-control that convinced them that building the New Berlin Wall was a bad idea for Baghdad.

“My view of Maliki has changed since I heard of this news, and we hope he would be able to carry out this decision,” to stop the wall’s construction, said Um Mohammed, a teacher in Adhamiya.

“We denounce the building of the wall, which will increase the sectarian rift,” she said as she stood with more than 1,000 neighborhood residents at the peaceful protest.

Imagine that. The Shiite's and Sunni's united in a cause.. and somehow that's "bad" for Iraq. In the right wing loon-a-sphere, it is. Not only that, it's the "liberal media" that caused the Iraqi's to oppose dividing up their city. Ohhh, k.

The liberals, backed by the liberal mainstream media, and powered by the Democratic Party, are doing whatever they can to enable the United States to lose the war in Iraq and abandon the region.

I keep asking, but the right wing loon-a-sphere will not define what "winning" means. Regardless, they equate leaving with "losing" and staying with "winning". Therefore, as long as Iraq is embroiled in chaos, our military must be there to.. do.. what? Die for the cause?

The top military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus has said "There is no military solution to a problem like that in Iraq, to the insurgency of Iraq". Still, the right wing loon-a-sphere only sees the military as the solution. Perhaps the liberals have their mind control on General Petraeus as well? Perhaps Doug's tour in the Navy better prepared him for leading our armed forces than the General?

So, why hasn't the "military solution" worked so far in Iraq? It's because the liberal mind control has prevented the military from killing enough people.

I swear to god.. I am not making this up.

And the Left through their onslaught of defeatist propaganda, and socialistic agenda, have created a set of rules of engagement that handcuff our troops and make them unable to wage this war as it should be fought. Our brave troops are being court-martialed for doing their job (Haditha is a great example of that) and are being killed because of the restrictions that have been placed on them by a politically correct ideology that rivals Islam in regards to how dangerous it is.

Now, despite the total military/Republican control of this war, somehow the liberals have established the "rules of engagement". Not only that, it's the liberal's fault that our soldiers are being killed.

Mr. Gibb's is clearly upset that the military prosecuted Marines for the incident at "Haditha". Let's recall exactly what happened.

BAGHDAD, May 26 -- Witnesses to the slaying of 24 Iraqi civilians by U.S. Marines in the western town of Haditha say the Americans shot men, women and children at close range in retaliation for the death of a Marine lance corporal in a roadside bombing.

Aws Fahmi, a Haditha resident who said he watched and listened from his home as Marines went from house to house killing members of three families, recalled hearing his neighbor across the street, Younis Salim Khafif, plead in English for his life and the lives of his family members. "I heard Younis speaking to the Americans, saying: 'I am a friend. I am good,' " Fahmi said. "But they killed him, and his wife and daughters."

Mr. Gibb's blames the death of US Servicemen on liberals who think that randomly slaughtering civilians is a bad idea in a war where we are trying to win "hearts and minds". Imagine that.

Clearly it is the liberal agenda that set the rules of engagement for the Marine Corp, which penalizes random murder, and not the hundreds year old Uniform Code of Military Justice - UCMJ that set that policy.

If only we had more Marines killing more Iraqis, the war would be going so much better. Mr. Gibbs believes the war "should be fought" by shooting women and children, and murdering dozens of Iraqi civilians.

I'm thinking that if pressed, Mr. Gibbs would advocate pulling our military out of Iraq, and simply nuke the entire country. In the right wing loon-a-sphere, the issue isn't an "insurgency", the problem is a race and religion, and if they were honest they would tell you that "winning" the war means killing everyone.

The 24 Iraqi civilians killed on Nov. 19 included children and the women who were trying to shield them, witnesses told a Washington Post special correspondent in Haditha this week and U.S. investigators said in Washington. The girls killed inside Khafif's house were ages 14, 10, 5, 3 and 1, according to death certificates.

Once again, it is the liberal's fault that our military's "hands are tied" and not able to shoot children in the head with military assault weapons when the need arises.

As Mr. Gibbs says;

The Democrats are winning the political battles when it comes to this war and our young men and women of the military are dying as a result.

They aren't dying because a Republican President sent them to Iraq. They aren't dying because the Republican Congress underfunded their effort. They are dying because the "liberals" don't want them there to be shot at and blown to pieces anymore.

Got that?

And finally.. Mr. Gibbs flexes his constitutional law muscle;

Their latest attack calls for Cheney's impeachment.

Hey, idiots, you impeach people for illegal activities, like lying under oath as Bill Clinton did. You don't try to impeach people for conducting their duties in ways that you wouldn't.

To which I replied on his blog comments;

I find it rather ironic that you call people who want to impeach Cheney "idiots", and further claim that impeachment requires "illegal activities".

You are, of course, aware that one of the charges the Republicans impeached Clinton for was "abuse of power". That article ultimately failed, however "abuse of power" is not a criminal offense. Therefore, the United States House of Representatives were "idiots" for bringing articles of impeachment for "abuse of power". Clearly your grasp of constitutional law is superior.

In 1970, Republican Gerald Ford (you remember him I'm sure) said;

"An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history."

Was President Ford an "idiot" too?

I would think that before you call people "idiots", you would do just a smidge of research on the topic first.. otherwise.. well, I won't call you an "idiot" because the new and improved Tom doesn't insult people like that.

I'm sure Mr. Gibbs is perplexed how the Democrats could be winning the "political battles". I'm sure he thinks there is a nefarious plot by the media to keep Bush's job approval ratings stuck in the low 30's. I'm sure he genuinely believes that more people in Iraq need to die.

I might give him a little more credibility if he were actually to deploy to Iraq, put the muzzle of his weapon to the forehead of a 5 year old child, and pull the trigger. It's the only way to "support the troops" after all.