Delay, Die, Delay, Die

For the past several years we have heard from innumerable policy makers, politicians, influence peddlers, so called 'experts', and others how we just have to be patient with Iraq. Things will work out. They are always wrong.

Joe Biden, Hardball, May 24, 2004:

We've made significant mistakes. Our one last shot to get this right, unite the world, convince the Iraqi people that this is not just a U.S. occupation, is June 30.

Joe Biden, Face the Nation, 6/19/2005:

We need time. There's one last shot at getting this right in Iraq.

Joe Biden, This Week, 12/10/06:

Everyone from John McCain, who says it a different way, to Joe Biden, to -- across the board -- is saying, we have one last shot to figure out how to deal with the chaos in Iraq.

Zalmay Khalilzad US Ambassador to Iraq, 9/30/06:

The U.S. ambassador to Iraq warned on Friday that time is running out for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to contain the burgeoning sectarian bloodshed that threatens to plunge the country into civil war. "He has a window of a couple months," .......

Former General Barry MacCaffrey, Meet The Press, 6/11/06:

MR. RUSSERT: But General, he seems to be saying that by the end of this year if we have not gotten control of this civil war, the Iraqi government will have lost its opportunity.
GEN. McCAFFREY: Yeah. I think between now and Christmas is the crucial time.

General George Casey, 10/5/06:

The US general in charge of the multinational coalition in Iraq, said that the next six months will be a decisive period that will determine Iraq's future. "This is a decisive period for everyone and everyone knows it. The next six months will determine the future of Iraq,"

More egregiously and immorally we were told by Rethuglicans and the White House Press Secretary that decisions about Iraq would not be made until AFTER the elections - in both 2004 and 2006. Now, Chimpie and his amoral goons are telling us that Georgie's little PR consultation stunt will not make any decisions until early January, 2007. Soon, we will hear of a needed delay until after The State of the Union, until after Presidents' Day, until after St. Patricks Day, until after Georgies' latest bicycle trip, on and on and on......

Well pardon me, but what the f..k !! While these clowns sit on their fat behinds yukking it up people DIE. Mothers are torn from their children and husbands. Fathers are ripped from their families. American kids are needlessly wasted as cannon fodder. Innocent Iraqis are murdered by the thousands. While these uncaring retrobates twiddle their thumbs, America's human treasures come home in boxes, or without legs, they come home brain damaged, or they arrive in their loved ones' hugging arms with their minds shattered for life.

Merry Christmas to those empty souls among us? Bah - humbug to them instead.
Posted on The Human Stain