on this mission while the MIC have a say in things.

All the rhetoric in the campaign and first term was just to lull us into a false sense of security that things were changing.

I get "mission creep," but doesn't that imply the existence of a mission?

Supposedly, we started killing farmers and their families because they weren't handing over Osama to us. (As if the farmers we were bombing knew where he was and also had the authority and the ability to capture him and hand him to us. We're adorable!)

That was Bush, of course, who put our puppet in charge of Afghanistan. Though I must admit, after we brought democracy to Afghanistan, well over 90% of the Afghans kept re-electing our puppet, so he was wildly popular and that was a good thing.



Still, we didn't seem to think our puppet was withholding Osama from us, or we wouldn't have been pumping money into him and his family, would we? So, wasn't our reason for warring against Afghanistan pretty much over at the point we made Karzai head of Afghanistan?

Bush had indeed kind of wound down in Afghanistan after he invaded Iraq for no apparent reason. However, Obama claimed we'd taken our eyes off the ball (what ball?) in Afghanistan to fight the wrong war in Iraq, the implication being Afghanistan had not only been the "right war," but still was the right war, 8 years after 911 and well after Karzai was supposedly in charge. And, Obama "surged" in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, in a hilarious turn of events, it turned out that Osama was all comfy near the military academy of our allies in Pakistan; and the joke was on us--and on the troops we put in harm's way in Afghanistan and all the Afghans we had been killing and terrorizing.



At I type, Osama is still dead and our government has told us repeatedly that the Taliban has nothing to do with Al Q'aeeda. So, I seem to have lost the thread here: At some point, we found out that no one in Afghanistan was withholding Osama from us. If that didn't happen when we installed Karzai, surely, it happened once we found Osama in Pakistan. So, what's our mission in Afghanistan been since then?

and ask a few questions.

In the end it's all theater and play acting.

The PTB create enemies and set them loose and then give us citizens the task of fighting them.

When we fight the enemy in one country they make sure there is a relatively safe haven for them just over the border in another country, so we can never completely defeat them.

And they make sure we don't go poking our noses into who is funding and profiting from all this.

and relatively newly-made enemies of the US, who might like to "repay" us in kind some day.

It's very real for the people involved on the ground. That's what makes it so awful.

I'm not really sure why I thought that. Our species never seems to tire of war, especially wars we don't have to watch or hear about.

thinking. Just stop it. Take the pill and shout USA USA USA!

Meditating supposedly helps, but, even then, my mind wanders.

what the pill is for. I need a refill though .

Gimme those pills!

maybe then we can stop thinking about all the lies and mis-direction.

but we are going to need to dip into the social security trust fund a little more to pay for this. But trust us we will never cut benefits.

And I hear we're putting more ground troops back in Iraq, too!

Could you ask for more from our glorious leader?

Sincerely,
Halliburton

P.S. Check your Cayman Islands account for those "speaking fees" we discussed.