House of Paine

john bullshit

in this acheson brief :

 tuck the fuck
        lances  
a massively flatulent
 old imperial bag pipe 



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"I think that this could still fail." 

Those words - 
uttered by a senior American officer
 in Baghdad last week 
 probably gave opponents 
of the war in Iraq 
particularly those 
clamoring for a hasty exit
 a bit of a kick

 They should be careful 
what they wish for
For history strongly suggests 
that a hasty American withdrawal
 from Iraq would be a disaster

------------- the curtain rises on 
our vicious  quag by the tigris -------------


 "If we let go of the insurgency,"
 said another 
of the officers quoted
 anonymously last week,
 "then this country could fail
 and go back into civil war and chaos."

-------------- 
 "this country fail "?

  i know we now speak 
       of failed states 
as we speak 
of failed corporations...

but failed countries?

"go back" ..."back into civil war and chaos"?

   of what doth this brass hat speak?

nice example of 
a quote worse then its own intent --------------


"As many of the war's opponents 
seem to have forgotten 
civil war and chaos 
tend to break out 
when American military interventions
 have been aborted"

---------- forgotten?
   non sense this sub -urban myth 
has never seen the end of one telling 
 before its  being told again ------------

" No one should wish 
for an overhasty American withdrawal
 from Iraq"

-----------  why? ------------- 

"It would be the prelude 
to a bloodbath 
of ethnic cleansing 
and sectarian violence"

------ really ? ----------


"and lead to cross border 
spill overs 
and outside interventions"

------------ double really ? -----------

"Think not only of 
Vietnam and Cambodia

--------- civil war blood baths
  in post 73 nam ????? ?
shit after uncle pulled out 
things simmered down to  a wimper 

cambo ?
 bloody  you bet 

but 
shit uncle  
created pol pot
just like bin laden
he was the ideal interveners bogie 
still is    
    shit hanoi
 proved that 
compare hanoi into cambo
with saddam into kuwait 
very different
international  reception eh?  --------


" but also of Lebanon in 1983 
and Haiti in 1996"

--------- what ?
 fuck  if 
 all uncle's armored knights  
wanted was to  get out of iraq 
tomorrow 
 guarantee em 
 a second post '83 lebanon....
a pulverized derelict of a nation 
washington would seize
 that deal and move en masse
to kurdistan
         in a new york second -----------
 
------------- so much for your few specific examples ...
got any more  you  pentagon tart---------


" To talk glibly 
of "finding a way out of Iraq,"
 as if it were just a matter 
of hailing a cab 
and heading for the Baghdad airport
 is to underestimate 
the danger 
of a bloody internecine conflict
 among Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shiites


------------- please
there is a un after all .....

and if the  h c lodge mind set prevails ?

well 
first off we could 
as i mentioned
 pull back into kurdistan
and vow to intervene
if the bagdad area kurds are threatened
with " ethnic cleansing" 
or if some neighbor trys 
 "spilling " into the joint.... 

but to be front and center here 

 as to the main event
the inevitable 
 sectarian show down
between shia and sunnis 

obviously 
better now 
then after
 we've armed and trained 
a few hunderd thousand shiites -------------

" Instead of throwing up our hands 
in an irresponsible fit
 of despair"

--------- no ass hole 
in a  fit  
of  manic  atonement  --------

" we need to learn 
not just from past disasters
 but also from historical victories
 over insurgencies"

--------aaah please
  don't pretend we can win this fucker  ------------


"  of all the attempts 
in the past century 
by irregular indigenous forces 
to expel regular foreign forces
 around a third have failed"

------- we got one in three odds
eh? 

come on 
 you old hagus butt
thats crap 
show me the tabulation list ....
and the butchers bill too 

besides whats a win by the bigs

the creation of a decent interval? 
at what price 
is 20 more years of  foreign domination 
                 a good deal ?---------

--- ------but regardless
now we come to the tunes  of past  glory -----------

In 1917 
British forces 
invaded Mesopotamia
 got to Baghdad
 overthrew its Ottoman rulers 
and sought - 
in the words of the general 
who led them, Sir Stanley Maude - 
to be its people's "liberators." "

----------- raj putz uber the sand taffy ----------------

"The British presence in Iraq 
was legitimized by international law
 (it was designated a League of Nations mandate)
 and by a modicum of democracy
 (a referendum was held 
among local sheiks
 to confirm the creation 
of a British-style constitutional monarchy)

- --------- "legit democracy" 
  as in "la modicum est  'nough fer darks   "        

 christ this is 
the sort of fishy  moral time lining 
the tel aviv boys crank out -------------


" Despite all this"

---------or  rather because of all this -----------

 "in 1920 
there was a full-scale insurgency
 against the continuing 
British military presence" 

.
---------lets skip
some blue stale fart
  premature  senility 
                           here
on 
then ..now 
and
the wrong side of asymetery" ---------

 ---------- well except for these  two frags --------

 " the striking thing
 about the events of 1920 
is how very like today ....."

 --------------  very like
         mother of jesus
                    he wishes to draw out the differences 
               and staggers here against his own wind  .....
              then again 
  the clowns   bulb is out 
                     and
                all faces  do tend to  look the same color  
                         in a darkened room    ------------------


" Even if the insurgents lose
 10 men for every 1 they kill,
 they are still winning
 not least because 
the American side 
takes its losses so much harder...."

------------------ believe me he goes no where with this

but i will...
  10 to 1 is a loser 
then 
 up the ratio to 100 to 1 
                 that did the trick 
               in most red skin dust ups  
which you'll see is more like
 the body count scoring
   aimed at by  the  roaring 20's brit occ 

100 to 1 white to wog bodies that is ----------- --------------

------------- the question is posed -----------------


   " How, then, did the British crush 
the insurgency of 1920? "

--------------- to anticipate
    how else
  unchained savagery ..... 
          torture 
and 
 jolly  blood letting  
             
 pure theatre of terror stuff 

                my favorite
           the old stand by
           random 
                 village extermination  patrols -----------

  okay 
  for u h g wells fans
  there was
  that new kicker
poison air  dropped from planes

pre mussolini    -----------

"Three lessons stand out" 

"The first is that
 unlike the American enterprise 
in Iraq today
 they had enough men"


------------- men ?
                 try  colonial wogs ...--------------. 



 

 " back then 
the ratio of Iraqis 
to foreign forces 
was, at most,
 23 to 1. 
Today it is around
 174 to 1"

" To arrive at a ratio
 of 23 to 1 today,
 about one million American troops 
would be needed"

-------------- notice 
               school girl math 
               amounts to high analytics 
                                   for our 
                       worthy 
                    cheese brained lowlander here 
more to the point .... ----------

 "The British were able to be ruthless....
 they used air raids "

------------ now yer talkin...
                  con gas amigo con gas  -----------

"......and 
punitive expeditions 

------------ i see alexander korda here ------------------
 
  to  villages that supported 
the insurgents" 

--------------conducted by  hell  bent  knife  happy
                                  colonial  wogs
                            straight  out of the moral  abyss
threshold for insurgent  support label ?
                           village contains 
               attractive women 
           as well as children and old men ------ 

    
 ----------------- 
           yup wog wet work
                 where as uncle's 
usin his own kids
and so he's 
gotta put up the facade 
          that 
" vee are not zah SS
           zare for 
             VEE fight a cleeeen vor
and yet.... ---------

and yet .... ----------


"  and yet 
our efforts to minimize
terror humiliation and torture 
have not yielded 
any significant benefits
 compared with what 
the few over steps have cost 
the country's reputation"

 --------------- yes indeed

  the good old colonial days

  t'was  easier
 to be a   brute  
 back in 1920 ....

as well it might be 
after a good four  centuries
of feeding  lower level europe 
on the value 
of a christian  wash and brush up 
for any and all  benighted   areas  
 
yes indeed 
even the nastiest  colonial baloney
     by  the brits provoked  no signifigant 
    " civilized world" knee jerk re-action  -----------


"The Americans' other problem 
has to do with timing 
and expectations".

 
 it may well take around 10 years 
to establish order in Iraq, 
30 more to establish 
the rule of law, 
and quite possibly 
another 30 to create 
a stable democracy. 

-------------thats 70 all together

in brit  iraq 
with all the time line
in the world

the 1917 invasion and topple
would have reached 
  zero hour  
just in time to shake gorby's dick --------


 
 "But the Bush administration 
has just three and a half years left

 Is it credible 
that American troops
 will still be in Iraq
 for even another
 four years after that? "

--------- no ----------

"The insurgents don't think so
 They know that American democracy 
puts time on their side
 Once again 
the contrast with the British experience
 is instructive"

------- what contrast ?
are u claimin 
the brit-raj had no  democracy 
back home 
to contend why?

in 1920 ?

better tell mister L -george ...

 a  white votin majority 


then or now 

could and still can 

 live quite comfortibly 
with a protracted  wog war 

long as its ...a wog war 
 
fought mostly between 
good uncle suckin  wogs and   bad  uncle threatenin wogs 
 
and  with american  blood  rarely spilt  --------------------

"Although Iraq was formally granted
 its independence in 1932
 there was still some form 
of British presence 
in the country until the late 1950's"

----------- right

 and 
when the fuckin 
  brit raj 
 decided
it was closing time
of course  

  their  lu lu  pupit king 
        was made into 
a   mere fly clouded
                  head  on a pole 
faster then god freed daniel   ------------

" So, if we acknowledge
 that the United States 
simply does not have 
the luxury of time 
that the British enjoyed 
and cannot be similarly ruthless
 can it 
at least increase 
the manpower at its disposal in Iraq? "


------------- ah the point of all this arrives at last ---------

"The official answer from Washington
 is that Iraqi security forces 
will soon be ready to play
 an effective role in policing"

-----------attend to what follows --------------

" Few who have seen those forces
 on the ground
 find this strategy realistic"

------  heres where we need an up date

why can't we build a wog force ?

why won't  wogs today work for us
 like wogs yesterday 
worked for the brits

why can't
the shia be empowered to lord it over the sunni 
as our honored regional wog surrogates  ?

little brown 
isrealis 
and better yet
cause they are
   without a domestic lobby  ------------------

   ----------     well certainly not because  ...... --------


" Some fear that the training
  Iraqi soldiers are receiving
 may prove useful 
only when they fight
 one another in an Iraqi civil war"

--------- 
the kilt's off here 
    you fuck face
   
   the  logic
     of this point:

anyone 
obviously  driven
by humane instincts
     would lead us   towards a swift yankee exit

before  by our arms and training
         we make the inevitable post bug out
                                    aftermath even bloodier -------

-----so since  a bug out now
     is not your intent
why not say 
why we need to stay flat out 

why not say 
uncle needs to stay
cause he wants to stay ....

 

and intercomunal peace 
between the big three 
would be a disaster
for uncles armed presence 

this is clearer 
every time 
 
the other bull line

 the "we're making  freedom bloom 
    in mesopotamia "
line 
explodes  into 
 thousand flying body parts 


yes em


their  bloody cross hatreds
are our only robust    pretext
for squatters rights
and the worse the better  

but back to this zinkles dance .... --------------. 



" What, then,
 of America's own resources?"

---------- notice the pavlov bit here ---------------

" Almost no one 
(least of all the Pentagon) 
wants to go back to the draft"

------------- 
not that this  draft scare
       pig rinse actually 
  matters
at least 
for  todays topic 
ie 

why we don't scram from  iraq



but how hollow  "no draft " sounds...

whilst the warlords
 are said to be
wringing their hands
             about too few boots 

i am meant to  hear 
  a latter day chamberlain saying 
  while he waves  
   a  paper over head 

           "there will be no draft  in our time" 

hear it 
and fear 
the false fright of an open  draft --------------

"  could today's 
all-volunteer force
 somehow be expanded 
to double (at least) 
the troops available? "

"That too seems unlikely."

---------- un-likely
and totally un -relevant


get the drift here compadres


this  iraq thing
is a  fort apache gig 

so obviously 
if the red skins 
are quelled
or simply kool off too much or too fast 
we lose our  occupation force
                  reason d'etre 

but i wonder too much and wonder to long  .....--------------

" How did the British address 
the manpower problem in 1920? "


------- here it comes at last --------------

"By bringing in soldiers 
from India
 who accounted for more than 87 percent
 of troops in the counter-insurgency campaign"

--------------viola mon point sur  les wogs magnifique  --------------


"  the United Kingdom
 had the Indian Army;"


---------  optimal game:
            good  wogs killin bad wogs killin  good wogs.... ----------------- 



---------------- there can be 
no  substitute  for the real thing
                               so ....  --------------


 "send Condoleezza Rice to New Delhi?"

--------------- my lord the  hind-jew axis may yet emerge  -----------

" radically expand 
the accelerated citizenship program
 for immigrants who join the army"

---------------- shades of rome .... 
key to the program
   all probationary citizen-soldiers 
must be  recruited 
from  in theatre wogs

imagine
how we'd 
up the  masculine 
      breeding stock
down the road
by bringing home
say
  350 k worth of 6 foot kurds?  --------------------

"  lower the (historically high)
 educational requirements
 demanded by military recruiters" 

----------------- 
not so smart an idea.....


as my pal the grackle has written

only so many folks anywhere
  are  dumb enough to vol for a pair of boots
                            in  a time 
                         of  shootin 
                            wars 
 and whats more
   most real  native amerikan 
                          pea brains  
  are  already holding down  
                    high payin offices
in gubmint or  on wall steret  ------------------





---------- i guess  i'll let this soiled tartan
                               end on his own fumes ----------


"remember its 
 174 to 1 over there right now 
and 
That is not only the ratio
 of Iraqis to American troops.
 It is starting to look 
alarmingly like 
the odds against American success"


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