Coalition Building
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What a joke. What coalition? First off, the Great Uniter, recklessly bent on his military misadventure/oil grab/neo-christian crusade, told the U.N. to drop dead, that its sanctions weren't working and that the search by its weapons inspectors should be abandoned so that the jingo fireworks could begin. This indicates the anxiety and impatience of a failed Presidential administration when confronted with a well-merited plunge in public opinion polls. Then, the Pretender-In-Chief told members of what used to be considered the Western Alliance that their reasonable concerns with and resistance to war in Iraq were unfounded, and that if you weren't with us on this, you were against us. Basically: "Drop dead." Then the figurehead of that retarded cadre of saber-rattlers who really run the show told the rest of the world: "We don't care what you think, we're going ahead with this blessed initiative. Drop dead." As a result, the only support received by the U.S. from the world community was some tepid and wan lipservice and a handful of troops from a few insignificant countries, plus canon fodder provided by Bush's fist puppet, Tony Blair. Today, nearly six months after the so-called "end of hostilities," anarchy, armed confrontation and bloodshed are the everyday cruel realities of Iraq, cruel realities our vaunted military appears to be pretty lame at containing or dispelling. If anything, our military presence there is a major contributing factor to the social unrest and continued violence. And it turns out that the U.N. sanctions were indeed effective, as evidenced in the outcome of the war and what was learned about Iraq after Saddam bolted out of there. And maybe the U.N. weapons inspectors should have been granted more time to complete their job: this would have saved the American taxpayers about $600 million that the Douche Administration wants to spend in a futile effort to locate WMD that may never have existed in the first place, or were so few in number that they posed a threat to no one. But that's another issue. The issue is this: the U.S. has something like 156,000 combat troops committed to Irag, which even the Pentagon thinks is an overextension of our armed forces that might make this country vulnerable in the event of threats to our security elsewhere in the world. The so-called "coalition" has committed less than 10,000 soldiers to this effort. Now that the winning the peace has proven, as those supposedly anti-American, Saddam-loving liberals and peaceniks loudly warned prior to the start of hostilities, to be much more difficult and elusive than beating the crap out of a fifth-rate army of a fourth-rate despot in a third world country, and that Bushie and his boys bit off more than they could chew, it's a much different story. Recently, our Presidential Impersonator marched off to the U.N. to plead to the former Western Alliance and the rest of the world: "Help us. Commit your troops to the war we started and can't finish. Contribute billions of dollars to help clean up the mess the U.S. made in Iraq. Forget our arrogance and idiocy and rashness of six months ago. No hard feelings. Let's move on." And how has the U.N., former Western Alliance and rest of the world responded? "Drop dead." And for good reason. So, despite the fact the GOP and political right sold GWB, a worthless bill of goods, as such a bridge-builder, master of compromise, etc. during the promises of Campaign 2000, it turns out that this clown doesn't have a clue how to bring people together. This has made the U.S. look weak in the eyes of the world, truly reduced our geopotlical influence and stature and essentially burned down the bank in terms of gaining international support for whatever enterprise this country might need to undertake in the future. Furthermore, internally, this ill-advised military misadventure has severely divided this country, and the end result is unlikely to be a "divide and conquer" political victory for Daddy's Little Boy. According to a weighted average of the eight major public opinion polls conducted over the past two weeks, Bushie's approval rating stands at 51.4% a mere 13 months before the 2004 election. No wonder the poor moron is currently experiencing such flopsweat. No wonder the White House is quite, quite concerned about the severe erosion of support Bushie once enjoyed in the political midground. It's certainly well-deserved, and the way things are going, the Dems are looking increasingly more threatening to the Texas Governor, even with the fairly lackluster roster of wannabes that party is currently serving up. If anything, GWB has proven to be one of the most polarizing Presidents in U.S. History, and the rest of the world is patiently standing by, hoping that the American electorate finally uses what little brains it has and turns out this twerp as a One Term Wonder next November.
