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Utopian Turtletop. Monsieur Croche's Bête Noire. Contact: turtletop [at] hotmail [dot] com
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
WW2 v. WOT -- ONE MONTH TO GO
1,347: Number of days from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, to VJ Day (Victory in Japan) on August 15, 1945.
1,317: Number of days from the airplane-bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, to today.
If Osama makes it to May 21, he will have survived the self-declared world's only superpower in a presidentially-declared war longer than did Tojo, Hitler, and Mussolini working together.
It's pitiful that the current administration enjoys a stronger reputation on national security than the opposition party. Pitiful, outrageous, [your adjectives here].
UPDATE, May 1:
This post has by far gotten the most attention of anything I've put on the blog. In less than 3 weeks, Dubya's WOT will have gone longer than America's involvement in the Second World War. I don't think most Americans realize it.
At least two people (one of whom I don't know) emailed it to their personal list. These blogs have commented or linked to this post:
Digby's Hullaballoo
AlterNet
Equanimity
colinb at DailyKos
Corndoggerel
Sivacracy.Net
Past Peak
Seeing the Forest
aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south
Brilliant at Breakfast
sysrick.com
The Left Coaster
Musings
Bush Watch: Progressive News And Opinion
1,347: Number of days from the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, to VJ Day (Victory in Japan) on August 15, 1945.
1,317: Number of days from the airplane-bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, to today.
If Osama makes it to May 21, he will have survived the self-declared world's only superpower in a presidentially-declared war longer than did Tojo, Hitler, and Mussolini working together.
It's pitiful that the current administration enjoys a stronger reputation on national security than the opposition party. Pitiful, outrageous, [your adjectives here].
UPDATE, May 1:
This post has by far gotten the most attention of anything I've put on the blog. In less than 3 weeks, Dubya's WOT will have gone longer than America's involvement in the Second World War. I don't think most Americans realize it.
At least two people (one of whom I don't know) emailed it to their personal list. These blogs have commented or linked to this post:
Digby's Hullaballoo
AlterNet
Equanimity
colinb at DailyKos
Corndoggerel
Sivacracy.Net
Past Peak
Seeing the Forest
aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south
Brilliant at Breakfast
sysrick.com
The Left Coaster
Musings
Bush Watch: Progressive News And Opinion
Comments:
Actually, the adjective that springs to my mind is "vomit-inducing." But at least we got that terrorist mastermind Saddam Hussein before he unleashed his WMD stockpiles on an unsuspecting world.
# posted by 
: 8:49 PM
: 8:49 PM
Of course, we used two atomic bombs to end WWII, but this is still a staggering observation.
# posted by : 12:19 PM
: 12:19 PM
WOT will last forever. Unless we end up nuking everyone. Then, at least, there'll be a time limit.
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# posted by : 8:39 PM
: 8:39 PM
When the Political-Appointee-in-Chief announced the War on Terror, my reaction was immediate: Designed never to end. Orwell's 1984: "We have always been at war with Oceana."
2nd reaction: Calling it a War gives the enemy an unwarranted legitimacy. Living in Seattle, I live near a lot of "legitimate" military targets. Of course, the Bush administration is made up of ardent linguistic Humpty-Dumpty-ists -- when they use a word, they think it means what they intend it to mean, no more, no less. Of course, Humpty-Dumpty was not only wrong about language, but he had a pretty freakin' catastrophic Great Fall.
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2nd reaction: Calling it a War gives the enemy an unwarranted legitimacy. Living in Seattle, I live near a lot of "legitimate" military targets. Of course, the Bush administration is made up of ardent linguistic Humpty-Dumpty-ists -- when they use a word, they think it means what they intend it to mean, no more, no less. Of course, Humpty-Dumpty was not only wrong about language, but he had a pretty freakin' catastrophic Great Fall.
