terrorism and iraq

so, apparently there was some sort of big-ass terrorist plot that was broken up, and the first thing the republicans want to do is blame all the terrorism on democrats. joe lieberman, dick cheney, and karl rove were all blaming it on ned lamont, and all saying that if we leave iraq, that will embolden the terrorists. you know what i think emboldened the terrorists? the way we are letting them win in iraq RIGHT NOW. our troops are sitting ducks for terrorists, in a hostile arab muslim country, where the terrorists can hide among like-minded muslim civilians. and our troops don’t know friend from foe, when it comes to the iraqis. you might think an iraqi is your friend, and he might serve in the iraqi military and go on missions like you, and then before you know it, he carries out a terrorist attack against you! stuff like that happens all the time. what the hell are we doing in iraq anyway? it is an unjustifiable war, anyway. we have killed hundreds of thousands, and for nothing. saddam hussein is in a prison cell, and some iranian-allied shiite fundamentalists are in control of the new iraqi government. but ya see, none of this iraq shit is any of our business. that is not our country. they never attacked us. al qaeda attacked us, not iraq. iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, whatsoever. we diverted troops from looking for osama bin laden in afghanistan to send them to iraq. republicans and joe lieberman keep talking all the time as if iraq and al qaeda are somehow connected. well maybe NOW they are thanks to YOU! yeah of course al qaeda has a presence in iraq now, because that is the easiest way to attack us. a hell of a lot easier to attack us in iraq than in the united states. and what the fuck about all the allies we lost? this is supposed to be a GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR. how the fuck can we fight a global war without any fucking ALLIES? it is such a joke! ok so we have the united kingdom as an ally. great! thanks for helping to get us into this mess, tony blair! without you, we probably would have never invaded iraq in the first place! asshole. the french tried to warn us, and gave us great advice, and all we could do was demonize them. shameful! there is no way we can win a global war on terror with no allies. and plus, isn’t this a war for the hearts and minds of the people of the arab and muslim world? to keep them from becoming radicalized and hating america and joining the terrorists? how do you think us fighting a war in iraq helps with the hearts and minds battle? joe lieberman is such a fucking idiot. he lost the election to ned lamont. concede already, you fucking republican! everybody hates you! guess what, lieberman? you suck ass! you have no clue about how to fight terrorism! you think we can go around invading all the arab and muslim countries, one by one, and keep killing people who oppose our occupying forces, and somehow end all terrorism that way? all we are doing is making more enemies, spending our nation’s treasury on iraq, and helping the terrorists recruit! osama bin laden has actually told us what his goal is. his goal is to goad the united states into spending so much money on wars and fighting terrorism, that our nation is completely bankrupted, and our economy collapses. and if you look at the bush administration’s economic policies, osama bin laden is well on his way to achieving this goal. and republicans who pretend not to be republicans, people like joe lieberman, only help osama bin laden reach his goals. just like the real republicans... all the republican policies are helping osama bin laden enormously. and he still hasn’t been caught! ned lamont wants to catch osama bin laden. bush? he doesn’t spend that much time on it. doesn’t really think it’s that important. and what about the war on terrorism? does he think he can win it? “we can’t win it.” - bush’s own words, regarding the war on terror. i think that says it all. bush is the dumbass who tried to sell out our port security to the united arab emirates, an arab muslim nation. the last thing in the world we need is for the arabs and muslims to be in charge of our security! jeez! these republicans have no shame, pretending to be the only defenders of our nation’s security, while they make these backroom deals to let the terrorists win, and while they behave in exactly the way osama bin laden and al qaeda want, in order for the al qaeda strategy to succeed. and meanwhile, the republicans criticize the democrats as somehow being allies of the terrorists, who want the terrorists to win. democrats are the only ones who can save us from terrorists, actually. because democrats are the only ones who can end the war and bring our troops home, restore our credibility in the world and our allies, and then work together with other nations on a global scale to make sure there is no safe haven for terrorists to operate out of. and as for iraq being a safe haven for terrorists, yes it is one now, and no it was not when saddam hussein was in charge, but the presence of our troops is part of the problem, and without them it would be easier for the iraqi people to defeat the terrorists. without our troops there, the terrorists would have no more sympathizers from the iraqi people, since there would be no foreign occupation to fight, and it would be clear-cut that the terrorists are the enemies of freedom and democracy in iraq, the enemies of stability and security, the enemies of normalcy. so my message to joe lieberman is very simple: SHUT THE FUCK UP! you are a moron and you have no fucking clue what the hell you are talking about, and everyone with half a brain knows you are dead wrong. get off your high horse and stop pretending to be righteous, you self-absorbed, whiny upper-class twit! all you really care about is holding on to your precious senate seat, since the only person you really care about is yourself, you selfish bastard! you have no loyalty to the democratic party, nor did you ever have any loyalty to the democratic party. as for me? i have loyalty to the democratic party, all right. i am voting for hillary clinton, and eliot spitzer, and other democrats running here in new york state. i may have criticized hillary clinton in the past, but you know what? she is all right in my book. i have watched her closely in the past few months, and she has been making some very positive changes. i thought about supporting her opponent in the primary, jonathan tasini, but he said some things that were a little too over-the-top, and he seems a bit too radical. if mr. tasini managed to beat her in the primary, he would probably not win in the general election, and even if he somehow won that, he would not be able to get anything done in the senate. he just lacks the good common sense that ned lamont has, that keeps mr. lamont from saying stupid things, that keeps mr. lamont from going off message or making a fool of himself. if you compare jonathan tasini to ned lamont, tasini just does not measure up. and hillary clinton is nowhere near as bad as joe lieberman. she is a staunch democrat, and a harsh opponent of the bush administration. earlier in the year i was disappointed with her silence on important issues facing our nation, but now she is doing much better, and has addressed my concerns. now, hillary clinton does not want our troops to all come home immediately; she wants a phased withdrawal. but there is no disagreement among democrats about iraq anymore. the leading democrats in the house and senate have all come to agreement about the best way to withdraw our troops. and with joe lieberman out of the party, we finally have some real unity on this issue. so if we are elected in november, we can really get things done. the president might be commander in chief, but if congress cuts off the funds to fight the war in iraq, there is nothing he can do to keep fighting the war there, to keep killing our young men and women (as well as some older folks too, now that they raised the age limit to join the military). somebody has to bitch-slap our crazy dumbass president, whose only veto was to prevent funding for research that might possibly someday cure cancer, alzheimer’s, spinal cord defects, heart disease, and pretty much everything else. this president is absolutely indefensible, as is the rest of his party. so anyone in our party, the democrats, who supports president bush publicly, had better shut the fuck up, first of all, and then either come to terms with reality and realize how big a failure bush is, or switch parties, because we do not have room for neocons in our party. what we do have room for in our party is people like senator russ feingold of wisconsin, the next president of the united states!