Comments on: Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/12/lightningstrikesnotoncebuttwice/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:53:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: jimportlandor http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/12/lightningstrikesnotoncebuttwice/#comment-1331 jimportlandor Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:58:18 +0000 http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2008/08/12/lightningstrikesnotoncebuttwice/#comment-1331 <p>btw: lightning striking twice isn’t a phenom - its only a supposed ‘never happens’ when referring to the hits twice in the same spot (but that’s not true since if it were true then churches, tv/radio towers and the Empire State Building would be able to take down their lightning arrestors after the first strike. </p> <p>But… to the main point. The problem is now and always has been that the US can’t withdraw from Iraq because we are there and any political figure that withdraws will be blamed for whatever comes after. We are in the La Brea tar pits, and likely to stay there forever. Quagmires can be escaped, but tar pits, not so much - actually never, or only if our asses are physically kicked out. </p> <p>The moral lesson is quite clear. No unilateral occupations, ever, And multilateral occupations only if the ‘decider’ on withdrawal doesn’t have to run for office against GOP/neo warnuts. </p> <p>Whatever the Iraqis believe about signing an agreement for the US to withdraw by a date certain, it is a US lie, and the Iraqis should realize that they have to unite to kick our asses back to the US State of Georgia (or somewhere else in the US south, like TX, AL, MS, et al) if they want us out. </p> <p>When the Dem. candidate for POTUS is saying we should be admitting the Republic of Georgia to NATO asap (after seeing how irresponsible the Georgians are and how riduculous it is for us to pretend we understand anything about south asia), you KNOW that the US Empire MindFuck is still fully operative and Matrix-connected directly to our brain stem.</p> btw: lightning striking twice isn’t a phenom – its only a supposed ‘never happens’ when referring to the hits twice in the same spot (but that’s not true since if it were true then churches, tv/radio towers and the Empire State Building would be able to take down their lightning arrestors after the first strike.

But… to the main point. The problem is now and always has been that the US can’t withdraw from Iraq because we are there and any political figure that withdraws will be blamed for whatever comes after. We are in the La Brea tar pits, and likely to stay there forever. Quagmires can be escaped, but tar pits, not so much – actually never, or only if our asses are physically kicked out.

The moral lesson is quite clear. No unilateral occupations, ever, And multilateral occupations only if the ‘decider’ on withdrawal doesn’t have to run for office against GOP/neo warnuts.

Whatever the Iraqis believe about signing an agreement for the US to withdraw by a date certain, it is a US lie, and the Iraqis should realize that they have to unite to kick our asses back to the US State of Georgia (or somewhere else in the US south, like TX, AL, MS, et al) if they want us out.

When the Dem. candidate for POTUS is saying we should be admitting the Republic of Georgia to NATO asap (after seeing how irresponsible the Georgians are and how riduculous it is for us to pretend we understand anything about south asia), you KNOW that the US Empire MindFuck is still fully operative and Matrix-connected directly to our brain stem.

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