Susie of Practical Penumbra is getting naseaous reading a lefty screed, and asked for a little help ratcheting this pecker-head's anti-Bush hard-on back a couple notches with a full-scale fisking.

I dearly love Susie, but I have some very important porn surfing to do, so I'm a little conflicted. Maybe I'll just mock random passages:

Before we invaded Iraq, it was a stable nation.

True. Mass graves don't move around much, so I suppose you could call a country full of them, "stable".

[Saddam]was an evil SOB, even worse than Dick Cheney

True. But not nearly as evil as Donald Rumsfeld, which is why won.

[Saddam]posed no threat to the region

True. Well, unless you were patrolling the no-fly zone and were being targeted with missiles, but I suppose, technically, the airspace above Iraq doesn't really count as a "region".

Now, Iraq is unstable, a “failed nation” at present, with little control of the populace.

True. If you define a "successful nation" as one where the populace is "controlled". Cuba 1, USA 0.

Iraq is one big training camp where live fire operations are possible. This is George W. Bush's gift to al Queda.

That and huge piles of dead terrorists.

Mr. Bush lied to the American people and the world about the threat posed by Iraq.

And Saddam lied about Kuwait being a province of Iraq. So think of this as doing a little clean up on aisle 3.

He changed the focus from fighting terrorism (an action with broad international backing) to demonstrating that in US foreign policy, might makes right, a policy that has lost us the sympathy of many foreign nations

Since "might" kills terrorists better than "sympathy", who gives a shit what pussy countries think? What are they going to do about it? Shake a finger at us? PFFFFT! I got your finger right here, buddy.

al Queda can point to impacting the American way of life

True. Until we kill them. It's hard to point with a dead hand.

Yes, 9-11 was horrible, but

Hmmm... looks like English, but no one sane would put those words in that order. Maybe it's French.

Give me Dennis Kucinich's cabinet level Department of Peace that would address this problem directly

Bah! Kucinich wouldn't even authorize mind-controlling space lasers. How can we have peace without the proper equipment?

Stabilizing Israel and Palestine will remove a key recruiting point for al Queda.

Good point. So let's "stabilize" the Palestinians, since they are, as far as I can tell, all a bunch of terrrorists or terrorist sympathizers anyway. See my first comment.

If elected, Mr. Bush can be counted on to continue a policy of international beligerence, thus strengthening the terrorist call to action.

YAY! Terrorists who answer the call will end up as a fine red mist, so more international beligerance, please.

This belligerent behavior will serve only to isolate America and coerce cooperation from fear.

Um... is there a downside to this I'm not seeing?

al Queda will not be coerced

No, they will die.

it will only grow in the nooks and crannies and dark spaces of the globe

Sorta like mushrooms, which live by eating shit, dying quickly, and becoming fertilizer. Sounds like a good use for terrorists.

The Bush doctrine of preemption isolates us from our allies

Which makes it easier to clean up the mess they made with their spineless appeasement.

and fuels the fires of hatred that power terrorism

United States Armed Forces = fire extinguisher.

Anything else I can do for you, Susie? If not, then I'm off to Booble.

UPDATE 5-30-04 11:30AM: As Elderbear points out in the comments, the term "peckerhead" was a personal ad hominem attack. As I'll point out, my use of the term was unprovoked and undeserved. He didn't start it. So, I apologize for getting personal instead of keeping it ideological. I'm going to leave the offending word in the piece, though, as a reminder to myself to think before posting, and so that Elderbear's comment (and this apology) make sense.

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