It's past the tipping point.....it's real bad.

Blame Dave

by Davis Sweet

As the conventional wisdom on Iraq drifts from "there's no hope" to "there's no fucking hope in hell," it appears that the only thing keeping American troops in the line of fire is George Bush's unwillingness to accept blame for this colossal oopsie. So I have a simple solution for a witheringly simple man: blame me.

It wasn't GW who kept the vampire Rumsfeld in charge of "Defense" until after the mid-terms; it was me. Sorry. I thought he was going to come up with a brilliant plan to unscrew the mother of all fuck-ups, but I guess I was looking at the résumé rather than the man. Can't apologize enough, really.

As for the many-sided but oddly single-minded insurgency, that was me. You may have thought it was the power vacuum created by the Coalition Provisional Authority destroying the Iraqi government and army. Nuh-uh. I actually thought it would be a kind of friendly rivalry, like Bon Jovi and .38 Special, but the pyrotechnics got way out of hand. My bad.

We can let our fearful leader off the hook for every moment of jaw-dropping incompetence, every inhumanity visited on innocents, every motherless and/or fatherless kid -- Iraqi or American -- who's going to equate America with evil for the rest of their lives, and he doesn't even have to give back the bloody money he and his vice-ridden Veep have pocketed. They can just declare November whatever to be "National Dave Did It Day." I'll fess up. I'll even let one of those chickenhawk morons like Hannity or O'Reilly berate me on a live teevee interview for letting Bush take the blame for so long.

There's the deal, Blameless George. Point the finger -- at me, or, really, anybody whose scapegoatitude can make you comfy enough to pull your head out of your ass -- and BRING THE GOD-DAMNED TROOPS HOME NOW.

Thanks, and sorry. So incredibly sorry.


May be all the non neo-cons need to accept the blame for NOT working hard enough to stop this criminal enterprise, they call the Iraq War. Then the idiot can blame all of us, change course, and finally bring the troops home.

What ever it takes after this week, because I can not explain it, but things seem to be starting to get really out of control, and this is BAD, not last Feb Bad after the mosque bombing bad, but past the point of NO RETURN bad, fight till the death bad, large scale massacre bad, whole sale slaughter bad, revenge with NO MERCY BAD. This means the American Army and troops are in for one hell of a fight, to stay and possibly one just to get out.

The final exit out of Vietnam will seem like a well planned and coordinated exercise compared to what the troops could go through in the next six months.

I do not give it much longer than that. The situation is falling apart way too fast for the bureaucratic pentagon or national security establishment to respond to them and adapt. Especially when the "official line" is still it is NOT a civil war. If they have their collective heads that far up their asses this late in the game, it can NOT turn out good for the troops. Time is far past for it to turn out good for the people of Iraq.

As the days grind by and the news gets worse and worse, I see Iraq reaching the breaking point and both sides attacking with out pause, and the American Military will never have enough boots on the ground at that point.

Just as thanksgiving day and it's aftermath shows, the US and Iraqi government are slow to respond, which the insurgents and militias count on.

Basically we have two choices. Whether they are willing to admit defeat and leave, or they are going to try to stay, and if they chose that bad option, who they are gonna get to help us restabilize the country, and "occupy it for years while attempting to defuse this explosive situation.

It will have to include the Arab Sunni and Iran states in the middle east, because unlike Afghanistan, NATO troops will just be pouring gasoline on this fire. and no Russian or Chinese government want to help Bush out at this point with out being given at least part of the control of the situation on the ground.

The neo-con wet dream of a American presence in the Middle east with a democratically elected Iraqi Government inviting us to stay is OVER. They need to wake the fuck up, so we all can start getting the Iraqi people, US troops and the world out of the nightmare their dream has become in reality.