As I see images of the Iraq war on TV, I can’t help but think what a huge waste it all is. So many promises were made before it all started, but they are so hollow now. The other day, I met a soldier returning from Iraq, and I asked him, “What do you think you’re doing over there?”
He told me, “We’re helping the Iraqi people become free and secure.”
Of course, I then spat on him. My car doesn’t run on democratically elected Iraqis.
We were told this was a war for oil. That’s something I could get behind. It was something I could understand. I pay tax money, and, in return, the government sends rough men out to seize cheap oil on my behalf. It’s been four years; we should have sucked the place dry by now. Instead, we were trying to do what? Create a democratic Iraq? It’s a war, not a social science project!
I have heard from numerous troops how much they like helping the Iraqi. Well, I guess it’s all well and fine then if they enjoy it. Then again it is on my dime. What do you soldiers think you were given assault rifles for? So you could hand out books to school children? So I’m supposed to sit here at tolerate rising gas prices while my tax money is going to fund the military acting like the international version of the book mobile?
|
When the did the military ever get it in its head that it’s supposed to help people? The only thing it’s supposed to help people do is kick the oxygen habit. We fund our soldiers for one purpose and one purpose only: To kill foreigners. All of them. I don’t care what their race, creed, or religion is; if they are foreign, then make them dead. Our sovereignty and our gas budgets are going to always be at risk as long as foreignness are allowed to exist. That’s why the founding father formed a standing army and sent them out with but one instruction: Kill! Thus, it should be of no concern to our troops whether a foreigner is free or not free. They should only judge foreigners as dead or not dead.
Really; there are no shades of gray here. It’s just a binary equation. If a foreigner is in state “not dead” then change him to state “dead.” If “dead,” then move on. It’s so simple, an elementary computer program could do it. Actually, there is no reason we can’t have robots with quite basic programming roaming the country side killing foreigners; is there like some union for the military that keeps troops from being replaced with machines? If not, just give me some grant money and I’ll make you those robots. They’ll constantly refuel themselves by eating small children. Then, if anyone complains about the kill-bots, you can just say, “Sorry. We can’t do anything about them. They’ve gone crazy and their out of our control.”
I think that’s something people would be proud to have their tax money fund.
Frank J. is a syndicated columnist whose columns appear worldwide on IMAO.us and is the author of such books as “The Chronicles of Dubya Volume 1: The Defeat of Saddam” and “Children Are Our Future of Alternative Fuel”.
War for oil! War for oil! I could use gas that’s less than $2.60 per gallon.
Fantastic Story. The best Democratic Underground thread that I have read in weeks. Wait a minute, I’m at IMAO. Nevermind
That was classic.
“It’s just a binary equation. If a foreigner is in state ‘not dead’ then change him to state ‘dead.'”
I about choked when I read that. Great job, Frank!
I’ve been telling people for years that I don’t want my Tax money to go towards schools and social programs; I want it to go towards buying Stealth Bombers and the “Incendiary Rounds for Marines” program.
Stupid IRS.
More killing and sucking and less mr nice guy by the troops! Good one, Frank!
I completely agree … use our military to get us cheap oil and to heck with this humanitarian stuff.
The socialist ponscum critter Chavez is in the process of stealing companies from American stockholders – send in the Marines! It might also be real cool for them to send Chavez’ head to Castro!
I agree with HK. I think that the W-4 that you fill out should allow you to choose where your fed tax withheld is spent. Kos kids could check the “hippie” block and fund medical marijuana; and we could check the “kill-bot” block.
100% agree.
So say we all.
This war sucks. Who was the idiot president who got us into it? Oh yeah him -> George W Bush This war sucks. Who was the idiot president who got us into it? Oh yeah him -> George W Bush <- worst president ever. His father was better. Bill Clinton was better. All the other U.S. presidents in history were better. That’s what the history books will say. You know it’s true.
Who is the father of the Modern Islamic State … oh, yeah the Reverend Jimma’ Carter
Who had Osama Bin Laden in his grasp, not once but half a dozen times …. oh yeah, the Slickmeister, William Jefferson Clinton.
Who fiddled with Ms. Lewinsky while the Middle East burned… right again, Billy Boy.
Who whacked “Wacky Kadafi” so hard it was at least a decade before he ventured out from the rock he crawled back under….
THAT’S RIGHT… Ronald Reagan. When you want the job done right, call a conservative.
…of course, all the aforementioned facts will be lost on the likes of sarcasm “man”…what a shame.
You and your fake “facts”. Where’d you get those from, Faux News? Ha Ha!
I get my facts from truly objective sites like this one.
I, too, am sick of these hawksocialworkers! More binary states for foreigners, less hexadecimal states!
Reagan was a terrific president but this is about Bush.
Who treats the “Wacky Kadafi” terrorist like he is a hero. oh yeah him -> George W Bush
Who dropped the ball and let Osama Bin Laden bomb our country and then allowed him to enjoy his freedom for years afterwards and even celebrate his 50th birthday. oh yeah him -> George W Bush
In the past conservatives have excelled at protecting America and securing our borders but not this guy -> George W Bush
Bush = weakened U.S. dollar, enlarged government, liberal war to “free people”, massive deficits, weak borders, reducing veterans’ benefits, terrible response to natural disasters, etc. Face it he totally sucks. No conservative or liberal should cheer what he has done. No American should cheer what Bush has done to our country. As Trump said the other day Bush is a total disaster.
And, as anyone who has seen his hair can attest, Trump is an authority on disasters.
I get my facts from being alive and aware in the last 30+ years. That and the BA in history I earned. So don’t tell me I don’t know my “facts.” Our family spent 3 years in the military under his royal whininess in the late 70’s and managed to leave the military for the public sector under Mr. Reagan. Then all our hard work was almost undone by the failed policies and lack of judgement of “Cigar Bill” Clinton.
Had the members of the press done their jobs during the Clinton administrations first dismal 4 years, someone with a modicum of sense might have made it into the Oval Office (or Oval Orifice as it is now referred to.) So don’t belittle my “facts”, at least not until you remove you head from your butt and stop using the liberal “mantra” It’s all Bush’s fault.
So don’t belittle my “facts”
I’m glad you put the word facts in quotes like you did because that’s what should be done with your so-called “facts” The budget was balanced under Clinton and tons of jobs were created. Bush has been a disaster and everyone knows it except for a tiny little portion of the far right who just can’t accept that their beloved Bush is a total loser.
Yep, well that’s what happens. They deceived us into believing that we were going to war to find OMQ (oil in mass quantities), but when we get there and don’t get ANY OMQ, they say we’re “liberating Iraqi’s.”
BUSH LIED! CARS DIED!
(I apologize in advance, it’s long… sorry)
The “facts” are the only reason the budget was ever balanced under Slick Willy was that the Congress and Senate refused to let him destroy this countries economy. Let us not forget the he and his partner in crime “Hillary” wanted to turn this country into a socialist state, with cradle to grave healthcare that would most probably have destroyed the economy and bankrupted the government as well as the citizenry.
Bill Clinton’s legacy is lies, sexual misbehavior and embarrassment. Since you are still parroting the party line it is no wonder you can’t find any “facts” but what is fed to you by people who wouldn’t know the truth if it stood up and bit them on the nose.
What part of “Kill the infidel” do you not understand? Let me help you. Kill meaning dead, head chopped off, body exploded so that no parts are available to trace you, assuming room temperature, an x-person, pushing up the daisies, joining the blooming choir invisible.
You meaning not just members of the vast right wing conspiracy, not just members of the military, not just homophobes, not just anti- immigrant, gun toting, fundamentalists. You meaning everyone who isn’t them. Anyone who isn’t the brand of Muslim that whoever happens to be in charge at the time is. Men, women, children, young, old, rich, poor, Christian, Jew, Agnostic and Atheist.
This whole argument makes me think of the conflict in Great Britain before WWII. There were some in the government and among the intelligensia that applauded Hitler and his policies in Germany. Even when they were shown how evil and ambitious his plan was they continued to aid and abet him. You will probably say that the same could be said of conservatives and the war. The difference is we didn’t invade Iraq because we wanted to take over there. We invaded to destroy an organization that had already attacked us internationally and domestically. To that end we deposed a dictator who supported with money and influence this organization. Someone who attacked his neighbors and killed by the thousands his own people. The terrorists and their apologists (even in this country) are the enemy.
In your case “We have met the enemy and he is you.”
AND all this time I thought JOHN EDWARD was the biggest douche in the universe. Who knew he would be so easily surpassed by a trolling TWIT like SARCASM MAN.
I love the hyper-link to Aljazeera, ass-wipe. What happened- you couldn’t find the link for the NAZI PARTY, so you had to settle for second-best?
frankj, you are full of shit! i used to respect you and your posts, but you have gone too far! i understnad your frusturation with the current rules of engagement, but you NEVER spit on american soldiers. EVER! not even in writing! frankj, this kind of “funny” posting needs to stop, unless you are trying to get rid of the support from the many fans like me. you have just demonstrated to me that there is such a thing as “so far right its left”.
Seanmahair,
If there is one thing I’ve learned over the years, you can’t bring up facts to liberals…it confuses them and causes them to go into denial. I was forunate to have my 6 year stint in the ASAF end two months after Clinton took office, and unfortunately, several friends stayed in to watch Commie Bill tear the military apart. I, too, lived through Nixon, Stumblin’ Ford, Peanut Jimmy, the Great Ronald Reagan, Bush Sr., Commie Bill and Bush Mini-me, but lived history doesn’t hold a candle to the New Yourk Slimes revisionist (drug-addled feeeeel-good) history in the eyes of a liberal (after all, every college first-semester know-it-all hippie knows more about history than ayone else). Don’t agrivate yourself by trying to hold a reasonable debate with someone who’s checked the Medical Marajuana box.
Jake,
Anyone who has read Frank’s previous post and his comments would know that the actual definition of this article is “So preposterous as to be fantastic Satire.” If you have trouble figuring that one out, Amanda F!@#ing Marcotte and the humorless tossers at pandagon seem to be your crowd.
So, Unwad your panties, have a beer, touch a real woman, and relax compadre, because he wasn’t defaming the troops. Of course, if it Has to be explained to you, this site is probably a bit beyond your reasoning skills.
The Right is the Party of Reason, not knee-jerk idiocy. That’s what Daily Kos is for. Wanker.
Jake, Frank’s brother is marine. Any comment within a column with the premise of “kill all foreigners” should be taken as seriously as the idea we should “kill all foreigners.”
“Bush = weakened U.S. dollar, enlarged government, massive deficits, weak borders, reducing veterans’ benefits…”
What you people don’t understand is that from Sarcasm’s point of view this is a compliment
Wolfman Dan,
Thanks for the concern. I try keep my Irish from spilling over but when someone impugns my honor that’s hard to do. I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, until they prove they don’t deserver it. Still I do know that going into a battle of wits with someone who is unarmed is really not cricket.
FrankJ: Looks like your going to have to start heading your editorials “SATIRE”, there seems to be some confusion about teh funny.
Satire: From dictionary.com
–noun
1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.
3. a literary genre comprising such compositions.
The left promised this war was a war for oil left and they are wanting to cut and run before our tanks are full of cheap, cheap gas.
They lied.
//Any comment within a column with the premise of “kill all foreigners” should be taken as seriously as the idea we should “kill all foreigners.”//
Yer kidding right??? Damn, now I gotta let that persian guy out of my trunk. I wanted to push him off a cliff…sigh
Hey now, Shim. Let’s not be hasty. Keep him in the trunk until you hear from us. Say, another month or so.
Yer kidding right??? Damn, now I gotta let that persian guy out of my trunk. I wanted to push him off a cliff…sigh
Let him out in the middle of a Spartan army.
Frank, please stop stealing my post ideas without properly crediting me.
Just to name a few.
I guess you do it because you’re lazy.
Say what you want about the Persians they make a mean rug and nice cat.