It's a Hit

Any chimp can play human for a day.
Use his opposable thumbs to iron his uniform
and run for office on election day.
Fancy himself a real decision maker
and deploy more troops than salt in a shaker.

But it's a jungle when war is made,
and you'll panic and throw your own shit at the enemy.
The camera pulls back to reveal your true identity.
Look, it's a sheep in wolf's clothing.
A smoking gun holding ape.

The lines above are from one of my favorite songs, "It's a Hit" by Rilo Kiley. It also sums up how w. has, and is continuing to handle this war. (Oh wait I guess this isn't a war anymore...didn't we already decide that the war was won when he landed on the aircraft carrier in a jet, and made the proclimation in front of the big "Mission Accomplished" sign?) Tonight he's going to announce a "surge" (note: this will be the first overused catch word of '07) of 20,000ish troops to Iraq to help clean up the mess he made by not apportioning enough troops when this whole debacle started way back when. Apparently this time, there will be benchmarks set which will make the Iraq government/army more accountable themselves, for taking back their country. The only way they'll start being accountable themselves is if we get out of there and make them take control themselves. What incentives do they have for stepping up, when they can just rely on us to do the work for them, and get killed in the process?

Speaking of accountability, how has w and his evil minions (Rove, Rummy, Cheney, etc.) gotten away with running such a shoddy operation. The whole premise of the invasion was because Saddam had "WMD's" and was a threat to world peace. It's been what, 4 years, and no WMD's found, and its a generally accepted fact that no WMD's ever existed. How is there no accountability for that? Oh right, whenever this gets brought up, its inevitable that the words "nine" and "eleven" are uttered at some point in the conversation, and its at that point you are supposed to stop the questioning. If that doesn't make it right for you, then you are 1.) unpatriotic, and 2.) helping the terrorists win.

It blows my mind that one president can get a blow-job and get impeached, while another can wage a war on a faulty premise, where 3,000+ soldiers get killed, (tens of) thousands more mamed and disabled for the rest of their lives, and absolutely nothing happens.

It's beyond belief.