This morning news is breaking that the UN-sanctioned no-fly zone over Libya is losing popularity with some european countries. A cynic might note the strangely coincidental timing of that sentiment with the announcement that the USA has no intention of 'taking the lead' in this situation. This, of course, is really just code for "we're not about to pick up the whole tab to protect your oil interests whilst we're already stretched too thin doing that for ourselves". On the American front it's not much better either, as the republicans have all of a sudden remembered how the Constitution works when it comes to the Chief Executive committing US forces to war. They are now demanding that Obama give them specific answers on timelines and goals, you know, the things they never even bothered to quiz Bush the Lessor about before he started his two wars of aggression. Still, better late than never I suppose.
Whilst I applaud the republicans finally admitting that the US Constitution does exist, and is not "just a piece of goddamned paper" as bush jr once said, this is still nothing more than a cynical attempt to knee-cap the current Prez. Consider the similarities between the Libyan situation and the myriad of excuses used to get us into the Iraq quagmire. Both had a dictator that has murdered and tortured thousands of his own citizens, both men lined their own coffers with fabulous wealth whilst ignoring the general population, both attacked their neighbours without provocation from time-to-time, and both sit on a shit-ton of oil. The difference? One military campaign was kicked off by a republican, the other one by a Democrat.
Don't believe me? Ask yourself this, did a single republican ever voice 'concerns' over Iraqnam? Did they ever publicly question their commander-in-chief during a time of war? Did they fuck...You would have been more likely to see little green men from Alpha Centauri dancing the polka on the floor of the Senate, butt nekkid, popping bing cherries out of their asses, than see a republican dare criticize the bush crusades. To my mind that makes these latest republican protestations nothing more than the clearest possible evidence that they are completely and utterly full of shit, and nothing more than morally bankrupt, raging hypocrites...
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