The world must think we're incredibly dense

Here are all these idiot Senators talking about sending the wrong "signal".

Is anyone here capable of reading messages or signals that Iraq sends?

When our troops are tortured and beheaded is the message "please stay a few years more... your occupation of our country brings such joy... if you leave now all hell will break loose and we'll lose this glorious peace and prosperity"...

You worded that so well. Hillarious and true! We have to stay long enough to privatize their country of course! Only then will they be free!

and not just our leaders. Worse than that really, the "average" American seems positively ignorant, emotionally immature, violoent (at least in their thinking) and potentially mentally defective. Actually, I'm just feeling really frustrated right now... but my faith in my fellow Americans has taken a severe tumble in the last five years--and I really do question the intelligence and morals of at least half of them (turns out to mostly be the Republican half, plus or minus 10%). If I were in a better mood, perhaps I'd be more charitable--but I doubt it!

Oddly, some of the 'smart' ones--as judged by skills and career success are actually Republicans; but they're so fantastically out of touch and their thinking is so flawed it makes me wonder how they could be so successful... (then I begin to remember all the office politics and inexplicable choices for promotions/raises and that it smelled of corruption, cronyism and even nepotism--and the 'winners' were usually always Repub/Conservs... hmmm.... maybe it was their ability to work the system fraudulently--just as they do in local/state/federal politics). Anyway, I'm left with confusion. Some are dumb as posts. The rest seem to be suffering from some sort of shared mental illness--thought and personality corruption and avoidance of rational/critical thinking. An unclassified viral meme?

crazy for "re-electing" Dub.