Dear Asshat in the White House June 29, 2005 ~ 11:57 am
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind , trackbackAsshat~
Wow, what a speech you gave last night! You must be very proud of yourself - you managed to look serious throughout the whole thing, never once slipping into your trademark “What, me worry?” grin. You stuck to the official White House script and told us you won’t cave to those polls suggesting that maybe, just maybe, the American people don’t agree with your decisions on Iraq. You know, it’s funny…when you won the elections last November with 51% of the vote, you called it a “mandate”. But this week when a Gallup poll says that 53% of Americans disapprove of the job you’re doing, you don’t even acknowledge it. Oh, what a difference 7 months makes, eh, Asshat?
Last night you said that you aren’t going to pull out of Iraq until the job is done. Remind me, what job is that? Liberating a bunch of people who never asked for our help? Bringing them democracy (nevermind about democracy being “by the people, of the people, for the people,” the Iraqis just didn’t know that they wanted one!)? Getting oil? Wait, that’s the job you don’t want to talk about. Getting those Iraqis to “stand up, so we can stand down”? Lots of talk about the Iraqis last night, buddy.
Now, my memory of the days after September 11, 2001 is a little hazy - I was kind of numb after a portion of my city got blown up - but I do seem to recall you pointing the finger at Osama bin Laden in those days. “Osama did it!” But as the years have rolled by, you seem to have forgotten about your buddy Osama. We’re not hearing much about him anymore. You mentioned him briefly last night, but then went on to talk about Saddam Hussein and how evil he was. It’s safer to talk about people we already have in jail than to remind people that the guy you said was behind 9/11 is still at large, I guess.
You talked about the sacrifice our troops are making and said that it was worth it for “progress.” Progress that you admitted was uneven. Well, I’m sorry, but when we’re coming up against more and more insurgents every day, more and more of our troops are dying, and the Iraqi civilian body count is up to a minimum of 22,000, I’m having problems seeing the progress. I think other people are, too. Sometimes the cost is too great, especially when the objective was never clear in the first place.
I’m going to leave you with a little bit of reading, Asshat, which you may or may not find informative. Some of it should sound very familiar to you, since it’s a lot like what’s going on in the Middle East now. Read and learn, Asshat.
Sincerely,
A Thorn in Your Side
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