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Ok, so I realize that I’m using a TV metaphor for something that has absolutely nothing to do with TV. But seriously, [tag]politics[/tag] resembles a soap opera more than anything else these days.

It’s a constant bickering back and fourth, and I’m not saying the Democrats are without their baseless accusations but come on people! The current political scheme has gone something like this:

September 11th: Shit, we got caught with our pants down, now lets rally behind our gun-toting redneck president and fix this crap. (for the record, I actually had a little bit of faith that the guy could do something good)

Fall 2001: The White House tells the world that we’re going to go to war with [tag]Terrorism[/tag] (I like the fact that we can declare war on a word. I’m going to declare war on pants tomorrow.)

Winter 2001/02: [tag]Bush[/tag] claims that there are connections between Al-Qaeda and Hussein, so instead of continuing to fight [tag]Al-Qaeda[/tag], we shift focus and go after these awful “Weapons of Mass Destruction” that Hussein has been hording.

Spring 2002: Holy crap! There’s all these factories and warehouses with weapons! Lets get them!

March 2003: Let’s invade Iraq and bring these crazies and their weapons down!

Mid-2003: Crap, there’s really not any [tag]weapons of mass destruction[/tag], oh well, lets keep fighting and say we’re trying to oust terrorism!

2003-Present: Continue to fight the same war, with no possible positive outcome. [tag]GOP[/tag] says we need to “win” the war on terrorism.

Right, so that brings us to today. The Democrats are being somewhat sensible saying that “ok, so maybe there was some screwups along the way and we just need to accept our losses and move on, maybe stay out of the rest of the world’s affairs for a bit”.

Republicans say: “The Democrats want terrorism, they’re promoting it. The Democrats want this country to fall apart!”

Ok, so lets be sensible here… (Also, for the record, I’m an Independent, not a Democrat) The Democrats most certainly DO NOT want this country to fall into oblivion. So basically, right now, because support for the current regime is fading, the Republicans are trying desperately to find a way to shift the blame on the Democrats.

Case in point: Bush wants more money for war. Democrats want to give him money, but only if he accepts that maybe we fucked something up, cut our losses and get out EVENTUALLY, not now. Bush says no, and then claims that because the Democrats are willing to give him money under a single condition, that they are promoting terrorism.

Um. Does anyone else see the absurdity in this? Dems want to give money, but only with a condition? Bush keeps putting his change into those little crane machines, keeps losing and then expects the next kid to just keep forking over money so he can continue to lose.

Reality check folks: There is no positive outcome to any of this. We cannot win a war on “terrorism”. And what conditions must be possible for us to “win” anyways? I think that “winning” would constitute the following:

Iraq converting to Christianity, losing all sense of culture, start speaking English and forfeit all oil fields to the United States.

That sounds like an ideal future to me.

This post was inspired by a recent claim by presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani that “The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us.” Oh yeah and he also said: “America will safer with a Republican president.”

My question to you folks: Has our current Republican president made us safer? How many US Armed Forces casualties did we have during Clinton’s reign?

[tags]rant, war, terrorism, politics[/tags]