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Even before President Obama spoke today and gave us, at best, an El Salvador scenario, at worst, Vietnam, America's most constipated leprechaun, Sen. John McCain, and the laciest belle at the cotillion, Sen. Lindsey Graham, spoke out about taking action to help Iraq. On the Senate floor, the manboob buddies attacked the Obama administration for allowing Iraq, which the United States definitely transformed into a paradise of sweet hookahs, ripe dates, and wet pussy, to become the raging hellhole of sectarian violence it is now.
McCain said the problem was that Obama didn't want to leave 16,000 troops behind. No, really: " T)he size of a potential U.S. force presence kept cascading down from upwards of 16,000 to an eventual low of less than 3,000." For McCain, the ideal number of American soldiers to leave in Iraq was 10-15,000, and pretty much just make sure there's that many troops there forever. In one of the most blindly optimistic statements or outright delusions, McCain said, " A) residual U.S. troop presence could have assisted Iraqi forces in their continued fight against al Qaeda. It could have provided a platform for greater diplomatic engagement and intelligence cooperation with our Iraqi partners."
Or maybe they'd've just had giant red, white, and blue targets painted on them, huh?
Today, McCain went even further down the yellow brick road of war: " N)o one that I know wants to send combat troops on the ground, but airstrikes are an important factor, psychologically and many other ways, and that may require some forward air controllers and some special forces." Indeed, nothing could benefit the United States more than taking a side in the Sunni/Shi'ite conflict. It wouldn't piss off the other side at all. Oh, and we'll have to bomb Syria, too, and no way, no how would that be misinterpreted either.
Like conjoined twins who share a colon, McCain is joining with Graham in shitting out the same turds. The senator from South Carolina said yesterday that "American air power is part of diplomacy. That may sound counterintuitive, but it makes perfect sense to me," which is not unlike saying that drinking gin and tonics after sunset makes sense to him. Lord knows it's supposed to be a daylight cocktail, but don't tell him he can't sip one into the night.
Graham continued, "Diplomacy cannot succeed unless you change the momentum on the battlefield. But when you drop a bomb, you need to have a game plan beyond the bomb falling, and that would be a regional conversation." So let's see if we understand this: we drop some bombs and then say, 'Ya'll handle this now.'" Isn't that exactly what the fuck we just did?
In other words, all we have is babbling nonsense from McCain, Graham, and, yes, Obama on the impossibility of doing anything good in a terrible situation of our own creation. Iraq is a nude Frankenstein's monster, running around with its detachable dong feeling the breeze. You're not gonna get him to put on some pants now.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/06/sens-mccain-and-graham-say-exactly-what.html
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)After all, the message is nothing. It's all about that one objectionable word, whatever it might be, regardless of context or intent.
villager
(26,001 posts)After all, you wouldn't want to "offend" anyone!
11 Bravo
(23,922 posts)is the total inability or unwillingness to consider any sense of context.
villager
(26,001 posts)But it does seem like the "alert" button is being way over-used here, these days....
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)I'm ready to place my order!
villager
(26,001 posts)Quite a dearth of it around here lately, to the site's detriment...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)rosesaylavee
(12,126 posts)should I say provokes today? ... the image in that last paragraph you posted here... made me laugh so hard I cried... oh, man. So messed up. So true.
Johonny
(20,674 posts)lest I get the vapors.
malaise
(267,784 posts)Those twins are crazy
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They agree that we can't let em get away with being uppity.
Ya gotta beat em into submission.
PUBLICLY....
....as a lesson for the rest as to what happens when you fuck with the Great White Male.
Is it any WONDER they don't think Obama will "do what's right"?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)The language you use young man is just, just........
[FONT SIZE=10]HILARIOUS!!!![/FONT]
K&R
IBTL
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)We should take bets - will it be "ripe pussy" or "detachable dong" that is alerted on (even though those have been used before by the RP, who knows what's a problem now....)
Sigh.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)"the laciest belle at the cotillion"
That seems like a sure fire alert magnet around here these days.
Orrex
(63,083 posts)Check back in an hour or so; I have to consult my checklist.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)get their panteezs in a wad over free speech. Hell, I got a comment removed because I said something mean about the bald wart hog Ari Fleischer.
Orrex
(63,083 posts)Your comment was rather insulting to warthogs.
The Wizard
(12,482 posts)wart hogs, bald or not, if they were offended by my insensitive musings.