rojosramblings

From yesterday's press conference--

"MR. SNOW: I think millions of Americans believe that this war is winnable, and I think, furthermore, that it's important to rebuild the sense of political unity. One of the things the President has often said is, the only way we lose if we lose our will. And it is clear that there have been political debates in this country...."

uh huh. Yes, millions believe the war is winnable. Out of roughly 298, 500,000, there are a few millions who still think the war is winnable. Even if some of the pollsters are correct and there is 25% who think so (being very generous here) that is at most 75,000,000. This is a definite minority. This is like saying 5% of the citizens of the US believe that the world is only 6,000 years old, so it must be considered a valid theory of the creation of all.

The worst part about this is that Galileo was considered a heretic. Valikovsky was considered a nut-case, yet now his theories of the possible cause of an Ice Age and the end of dinosaurs may be correct. You cannot condemn minority opinion and feel grand about yourself. Why the next thing you know minorities like women will want equal rights and pay. Single people and divorced people being in the minority will want equal rights with traditional Christian families in terms of child-rearing.

What's that? women outnumber men in America and there are more divorced Christians than traditional families. Don't bother me with facts, I am on a roll. I mean how could a majority work for less pay and not have equal rights. Or how could a majority of non-traditional Christians actually listen to traditional ministers as if there word were law? Someone in the media really must not be doing their job. There might be stories there.

Sarcastic digression ended. I know there have been times when less than 20% of popular opinion has been correct. But, look at the track record of this administration. Energy policy--promises of alternative energy funding and cleaner air. Ooops, that didn't work and when records are requested as to how energy policy was formed, they become records sealed in Dick Cheney's personal security library. Start a war because of weapons of mass destruction somewhere north, south, east or west of Tikrit. see also, somewhere over the rainbow. Al Qeda links to Hussein, who hated them. Didn't even know Sunnis and Shia were in opposition to each other, worse than Klan Christians and Catholics in the 30s. The list of blunders is endless and the public patience and acceptance have grown very thin. It is one thing to bluster about earmarks and pet projects placed into bills, but not very different from funding a war outside the general budget. I wish my charge card creditors would allow me to fund things outside my general budget. Again, I digress.

No, the history of mistakes is unbelievable. and now, we are asked to think 20,000 more unfunded troops will clear things up in a little while. NO!!! Maybe politics and talking instead of bluster and brute force are an option. If these guys really need to see how big there dicks are (oh, excuse me--I mean how grandiose their legacy is by bringing democracy to the oppressed), maybe they should find Virginia Pipeline (as in 4,000 men lay Virginia Pipeline.) and since when is 20,000 more troops a surge, not an escalation?

Reality check, please.

rojo