{"id":149,"date":"2003-12-15T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-15T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/?p=149"},"modified":"2003-12-15T12:16:20","modified_gmt":"2003-12-15T15:16:20","slug":"mission-accomplished-uhm-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/soapbox\/mission-accomplished-uhm-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished… uhm, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SoApBoX\"<\/a>
\nFrom triumph to cockfight in a matter of hours
\n…Or how the NeoCons in America can screw up a wet dream<\/b><\/p>\n

Perhaps I can explain my stance with a little parable.<\/b>
\nThey seem to work really well when we needed to take already-scrambled American brains filled with trauma and fear and justify totally irrelevant points in the past:<\/p>\n

A man whose family was murdered by a maniac received a call from the police:<\/p>\n

“We got him! Come on down to the police station.”<\/p>\n

Excited and seeking closure, he arrives only to see a different face in the lineup.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Jones”, the police officer asks, “can you identify the man who mugged you ten years ago?”<\/p>\n

“W-what???”<\/p>\n

The officer goes on to explain that the mayor has put high priority of apprehending this suspect. He’s wanted for a wide number of crimes, including murder, rape and armed robbery, and it’s the hopes of the mayor’s office to get him off the streets with Mr. Jones’ testimony.<\/p>\n

“Right there. Number two”, Mr. Jones points. Very puzzled and dissappointed.
\n“What about the man who killed my family?”
\n“We haven’t found him yet, sir.” The officer replies, feeling his pain.<\/p>\n

Mr. Jones leaves the stationhouse with mixed feelings. A dangerous criminal will now spend the rest of his life behind bars, but it still feels like a cheap second-hand consolation prize. Still carrying that hollow feeling inside and no hope for closure.<\/p>\n

He still feels the police are doing an excellent job, but he thinks the mayor is a total asshole.<\/p>\n

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It certainly didn’t take long for the joy and jubilation of one less tyrant on the loose to turn into an immature “Hey, let’s go piss all over the anti-war folks!<\/a>” gloatfest. <\/p>\n

Led by none other than Glenn “IstarePugnant” Reynolds<\/a> himself. He turns to his Coalition of the Clueless, instills in their empty skulls<\/a> that Democrats and anti-war blogs are “devastated” by the news of Saddam’s capture (I have yet to read one site where Saddam’s capture was construed as “bad news”.), and yesterday’s news somehow justifies invading a country on pretexts of “WMD” and being a clear and present danger to the United States, and makes it all “worth it”…<\/p>\n

Oh wait, the warbloggers had their doubts, so then it became about mass-graves, and rape rooms…<\/p>\n

Oh wait, now that we got Saddam, he’s gonna crack, so it’s back to the weapons again…<\/p>\n

Just when we were all laughing at Glenn for his questioning of why a protest with Iraqi commies wasn’t all over the American news<\/a> (Original post<\/a>), he has this to divert everyone.<\/p>\n

Lucky him.
\nYes. Followers of Glenn are truly the “InstaPutz-es”. Always good for a laugh. Somehow this little immature rightwing “gloatfest” is now supposed to sway us all to vote for Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Uh huh.<\/p>\n

Let’s step out of “fantasy land” for a minute…<\/p>\n