Wildcats, Wolverines, and the Bush Malignancy

Tonight the Northern Michigan University Wildcats take on the University of Michigan Wolverines in the CCHA hockey playoffs. While I will always have a place in my heart for Yooper underdogs, and was ecstatic about their victory over their former mentor and rivals, Rick Comley (he does look like a bit of a serial killer, but so do I) and the hated Spartys, I have to cheer on the Wolves. Naurato, Kolarik, Porter, Pacioretty, Palushaj, and Ciraulo provide the flesh and blood reasons for my allegiance. They have all been students of mine, and to a man are a bunch of swell guys. Go blue!

Speaking of serial killers, consider these quotes delivered on March 19, 2008 at the Pentagon (isn’t that a Satanic symbol?) by our Commander in Chief:

“[t]he speed, precision and brilliant execution of the campaign will be studied by military historians for years to come.”
-- El Presidente

Truer words were never spoken, George, but these studies, of which there will be many, will have nothing to do with “precision” or “brilliance of execution.” This guy needs a dictionary. Try words and phrases like “quagmire,” “debacle,” “carnage” and “senseless waste of life.” Here’s what L. Paul Bremer III recently had to say (watch out for guys with Roman numerals after their name), this from the former presidential envoy to Iraq, and the very same charlatan who ignored Bush’s national security team in making the horrendously tragic mistake of disbanding the Iraqi army and police force, effectively pushing them into joining the insurgents and creating an atmosphere where lawless gangs and criminal looters had free reign: “I should have pushed sooner for a more effective military strategy.” Really? Do tell? Duh!!!!

“Because we acted, the world is better and the United States of America is safer.”
-- El Presidente

Another gangster flunkie who recently deserted the ship of state, Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration, had this to say, “A group including the national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice [who I like to call E. T.], and the Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet—with President Bush’s approval--blundered into an ill-conceived occupation that would facilitate a deadly insurgency.” Regarding the idea of helping the Iraqis build their own society, Perle suggests that this is “something we didn’t know how to do and should never have tried.” Ah Dickie, we hardly knew ye.

The quotes above beg the question, what planet is W. living on? Somebody break this guy's crack pipe. Given their ignorance and arrogance, it would probably be too much to ask that George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld explain to the families of the nearly 4000 young American dead, never mind the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians (oops, I forgot, they don’t count), that this war has been “well worth the effort.”

Here’s a word, “appalling.”