Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Exit Plan??

Strategic Pillars:
The plan sets out eight "strategic pillars" of U.S. strategy:

1. Defeat the terrorists and neutralize the insurgency.
2. Help Iraq's security forces become self-reliant.
3. Help Iraqis forge a national compact for democratic government.
4. Help Iraq build government capacity and provide essential services.
5. Help Iraq strengthen its economy.
6. Help Iraq strengthen the rule of law and promote civil rights.
7. Increase international support for Iraq.
8. Strengthen public understanding of U.S.-led coalition efforts and public isolation of the insurgents.

Source: White House

Has this not been the plan along? The only reason I advocate staying in Iraq is based on the fact that the country would deteriorate into a breeding ground for future terrorist enterprises (a circumstance of Busholics nearsighted image of the world).

My thoughts on "Strategic Pillars":

1. Defeat the terrorists and neutralize the insurgency. (The phrase "Mission Accomplished" comes to mind here. And now Dick "Defer me!" Cheney is providing us with the correct definition what an insurgency is?)

2. Help Iraq's security forces become self-reliant. (Forget it, most of them are too interested in American pornography* and saving their own asses to become self-reliant. Hey, if you had the most powerful military in the world at your back, doing the grunt work, would you become "self-reliant?")

3. Help Iraqis forge a national compact for democratic government. (Kurds, Shiites, Sunnis, Iranians, Insurgents, al-Queda. Too many people looking to cut the throat the other one to make a cohesive national sense. Especially since the U.S. lead invasion successfully fractionalized each and everyone of them. Where is Saddam?)

4. Help Iraq build government capacity and provide essential services. (How? Provide them with expedited passport requests and issuances for their inevitableable migration to the United States?)

5. Help Iraq strengthen its economy. (Is Haliburton an Iraqi corporation?)

6. Help Iraq strengthen the rule of law and promote civil rights. (I'm willing to bet that maybe about 3% of the population of Iraq is educated enough to even know that there is such a thing as "civil rights." And whose going to teach it to them, The U.S.? Please. Rajid Par-Karmeni, the Sunni, wants to sit in the front of the bus loaded with I.E.D's.)

7. Increase international support for Iraq. (They had international support, it was called the U.N. and France. And we all know how committed France is when it comes to taking a stance against international oppression. Wait, isn't the U.N. basically run by the U.S.?)

8. Strengthen public understanding of U.S.-led coalition efforts and public isolation of the insurgents. (Translation: lie, lie, lie, and lie some more. Call Rupert Murdoch and tell him to repeat lies, over and over and over again. Kill Al-Jazeera journalists. Then add a spice of rhetoric and a little Christian charm. Cram it down middle Americas willing throats and then hide in Texas for three months on a much needed vacation.)

Source: Your Moms House

* Support of my claim in part two of Strategic Pillars:



Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Old Man Sushi

I went to pick up sushi at this place in Manhasset tonight, upon entering I noticed a translucent snotlet hanging out of the right nostril of the old man in the foreground. I summarily walked out and then walked back in pretending that I never saw it, picked up my food went home and forced myself to eat every snotlet.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Time...


There isn't much of it. Totally screwed.

Some Quotes:
"Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink." - Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it." - His reply.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

"He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato

I take these three quotes to heart. Although I'm not certain if beer was available in Plato's Greece. Will have to look into that.
One more:
"People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot." - Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

Friday, November 25, 2005

Mobile Test

This is a picture of my hand taken with my cell phone to test Blogger's mobile blogging. Looks like it worked pretty well...cool.

Now I can write posts and send images via my cell phone. Why? Who knows?

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Suck me

I have a 50 page thesis due in about a week. How much work have I done on it? I started reading the first book on my "tentative" bibliography two nights ago. Nevermind that I "started" my research last January, its fucking crunch time baby!!!

I am currently drinking a frozen bottle of Canada Dry Refreshingly Raspberry Sparkling Seltzer Water (is that gay?), which I believe is blogworthy.

Here is a picture of the more refined members of my family, which is blogworthy as well:



I think its a rather groundbreaking photo, thoughts?

Monday, November 21, 2005

Wine

Me, Lauren, Harry, Andrea, Maggie, and Chris in front of the limo we rented for a day of wine tasting on Long Islands North Fork to celebrate mine and Harry's birthdays two weekends ago. After tasting about five different vineyards I decided the last one we went to, http://www.castellodiborghese.com/,was the best. (btw, one of the chairs that the owners are sitting in on the front page of the website was broken by my friend Chris)

Some Photos