Why We Fight…

According to a report on cnn.com:

U.S. to allow 7,000 Iraqi refugees

This story kicks ass in so many ways. If Lou Dobbs (not to mention a resurgent KKK) is pissed that the Mexicans are sneaking in to steal our cotton-picking jobs (literally), this should give him a stroke. Thousands of indigent brown people who don’t speak our language or “share our values” who will either be on the dole or doing the jobs that Mexicans don’t want to do, and oh yeah, may well be harboring the kind of terrorists we’re supposed to be fighting over there so they don’t come over here!

You’ve got to give the policy-makers credit for this: They keep finding creative ways to further invalidate the premises of their own stupid war. This one’s a doozy.

Remember when the USA opened its doors to Cuban refugees and that crafty old fucker Castro threw open his prisons and loaded up the boats with Cuba’s convict class? Well, this new breed of insurgent/terrorist could teach Castro a thing or two. “Send us your poor, your tired, your huddled jihadists yearning to blow themselves up...”

Yes, this short piece contains more crazy per capita than the Arkham Asylum psych ward at midnight during an unscheduled lunar eclipse.

[SPOILER ALERT: Conspiracy Theory ahead]
Unless… unless you think maybe people in or around the Bush administration are getting desperate for a different ‘story’ and better poll numbers, and they’re guessing that a new act of domestic terrorism may just be what it takes to reunite the country behind our stalwart Whatever-he’s-calling-himself-this-week-in-Chief before he rides off into the sunset in 23 more long, long months (really – longer than this sentence) to work the rubber chicken circuit.

By the time anyone figures out any possible connection between the refugees his administration just agreed to admit to “The Homeland” and the act of domestic terrorism that Bush surfs out his second term on, he really will be long gone. In a blaze of glory that will piss me off more than the actual attack.*

And whoever has replaced him will be as crazy as he is for even wanting the job.

I’m not optimistic.


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* Unless I myself happen to perish in said attack. In which case, please disregard.