Selling War
One of the more spectacularly weird advertisements for toys... things you learn being a parent. A, must click!! The 'Dr. Strangelove' overtones are too ironic.
Update: You can buy them, here and here.
Powell toes the party line
From the 9.12.04 MTP. What is it about this administration and shifting 100% of all blame?
SEC'Y POWELL: Of course. I'm troubled that we have to do a better job of conveying to the world what we have achieved in Afghanistan and in Iraq: two terrible regimes gone, 55 million people given the promise of freedom. The people who should be getting criticized right now are the insurgents and the terrorists and the old remnants of the Taliban and the old remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime who are trying to keep the Iraqi and Afghan people from getting to a better, brighter future. Those are the ones that should be getting the criticism, but we're getting the criticism right now.But we're confident of what we're doing. We're confident in our strategy. We're confident that we've done the right thing in both Afghanistan and in Iraq, and this is not the time to get weak in the knees or faint about it, but to drive on and finish the work that we started.
Flashing back to the bully on the playground scenario here...where the bully taunts the little guy until he swings, beats the shit out of him and then blames the little guy for swinging first. Quite the international policy.
Posted by kerry at September 23, 2004 03:15 AM | TrackBackApparently, Saddam's spider hole was on a railroad car, and he was captured when he tried to escape on a horse. That's something you'll never learn from the liberal media.
Posted by: dmm at September 23, 2004 04:59 AMAh yes, Preznit StrangeBush, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love [fill in 21st century fear of your choice].
Just don't tell me these toys are made in China.
Posted by: Miss Authoritiva at September 23, 2004 07:38 AMBin Laden's goal was to invite retaliation and drag us into a protracted guerilla war. He wants to bleed the U.S. in a quagmire and drive it from the Middle East. At that point, al Qaeda has free reign to topple the regimes the U.S. supports in that region. Rather than hunting and killing al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Bush decided to conduct a little nation-building while he was there. Aghanistan is ungovernable, but that didn't stop him from trying. Afterall, "nation-building" was in one of his campaign promises. Bin Laden assumed the guerrilla war would be fought in central Asia. Bush was too smart to fall for that. He started another guerilla war in Iraq.
Posted by: Jeff at September 23, 2004 03:36 PM