| I'll bet the shredders are working overtime in preparation for the arrival of the [Democrats] in power early next year . . . . |
So who manufactures those damn things, Mr. Bones? Buy us some stock now!
| US civilian contractor deaths were up 17% in 2007, which is, according to experts, an "incredible" statistic. Makes a person suspicious that the fall in US military deaths was a little artificial and that contractors were sometimes sent in, instead, and that their deaths do not garner the same attention as those of US troops. |
That one is not mere hyperoptimism, there's a whiff of Badger's Syndrome present as well. As rhetoric I rather like it, Mr. Bones, 'a little artificial' for mu’ámarí jidd.an is nicely understated, don't you think? [1]
Where the Secret Partisan Truth™ should be insinuated, however, there lurks nothing more unbelievable than that "at least 353 civilian contractors working for the U.S. government were killed, up from 301 in 2006, [as] Labor Department records show," i.e., not quite one Big Party merc or mercatrix shredded per diem.
If the WGAS were to allow himself to make up more copy without finding somebody else to quote from, his obvious next move would be to question whether the Department of Labor is tellin’ the whole truth. That organization is answerable to the little lad from Yale with the Harvard Victory School MBA, after all.
Meanwhile, over on the attention-garnering front, you'll notice, Bones, that I am the one who has to single out the following statistic:
| Less than 3 percent of convoys rolling through Iraq are coming under attack, Brooks said, down from about 20 percent a year ago. |
If we've got any Humvee stock, you better sell it, I guess. Uncle Sam won't be in the market for so many replacements. [2]
| Paul George says of the Iraq War, "It's the oil, habibi, the oil," quoting IC which in turn paraphrased Muqtada al-Sadr's similar comment about the fighting in Kirkuk. |
"Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I."
No further comment. Next? [3]
Happy days.
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[1] "Garner" smells of Journalism College, though. Subtract half a point.
[2] "World's Greatest Area Student," don't you remember our abbreviation, sir?
As to your idea that the Department of Transportation might very well be fibbin’ and shreddin’ and misunderestimatin’ for Boy and Party also, that is certainly not impossible. Still, shredded vehicles do not interest journalists and Televisionland nearly as much as shredded mercenaries do. Only an insurance adjuster would prefer to discuss the former.
Of course there's also the late Paul Elmer More, "To the civilised man, the right to Property is more important than the right to life," but that is a counsel of perfection that few Party neocomrades strive towards seriously when it's a question of their own life.
[3] The WGAS's petrolaeocentricity comes and goes, waxing and waning in accordance with Luna or Uranus or who knows what. One could "prove" equally well from him that the Dread Neocon Cabal is solely responsible for the bushogenic quagmire.
Presumably the common root of both errors is a confusion of why the Aggression Faction invasionized the former Iraq in the first place with their subsequent rationales for never gettin’ out. Cheap fuel and Hyperzionism had very little to do with original caper, yet they have subsequently become two great pillars of Responsible Nonwithdrawal. To top off his analytical confusion, the WGAS seems to be under the impression that irresponsible withdrawal will start instantly in January 2009 and then proceed relentlessly. Not bloody likely.
To top off the Aggression Faction's confusion, there is the tolerably plain fact that they do not absolutely need to garrison Peaceful Freedumbia indefinitely for the sake of oil and Hertzlstán, although no doubt they sincerely think that they do.
Communication between the aggressionites and Prof. Juan Cole is further obstructed because the former are in earnest about bein’ at War against Global Tourism -- counterterror, of course, is the third and greatest Pillar of Aggression. The WGAS simply can not take the Big Party's Kiddie Krusadin’ seriously, and considered as a thing itself, it does not merit being taken seriously. Nevertheless, it is worse than a crime, it is a blunder, not to appreciate that the militant brats really do believe in their own brattiness, which is by no means mere camouflage for selfish manipulations by Exxon-Mobil or aggrandizement of the Tel Aviv statelet.
Neither of these traditional villains has actually gained anything much from George XLIII's colonial campaigns, and they may even have lost ground. Petroleagineous tycoons and Jewish Statists are, taken collectively as factions, both a good deal brighter and clearer-headed than the Crawfordite clowns have been; both could certainly have done better for themselves than the Big Party stumblebums have done for them. It would be suicidal for either crew to be openly at odds with whoever commands Sole Remainin’ Hyperpower in the world. So that is out. Yet the fact that they can't get out of the Car of Juggernaut does not mean that they are driving it, or that they endorse the way Master Dubya has been drivin’.
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