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In my best bored teenager voice: Ya think? People who knew anything about the perilous stability of the Middle East were against the war in Iraq for EXACTLY THIS REASON YOU DUMBASSES!! Newsweek, keep up with the class and quit lollygagging back there! (Yes, the bored teenager morphed into Sister Catherine in mid-sentence, so sue me.) Iraq wasn't a terrorist training ground before we got there to make them free, because Saddam, vile scum that he was, didn't like competition and kept this crap out of his country. Now we've given them "Freedom" - to be the new Afghanistan.

This isn't my own Brilliant Thinking. Lots of people, smart people, people who study this stuff, have been saying this for a couple of years, since before this idiotic war, in fact. They were shouted down by an Administration whose response was the brilliant, well-researched policy position: "Why do you hate America?" and of course the endless, inane 911 drumbeat - dragging out those poor dead New Yorkers, whose tragic deaths had nothing to do with Iraq, every damn time they could cram it into a conversation. Kinda like your Uncle Herb turning every conversation to the state of his prostate.

And the disgusting thing is, it WORKED.

Public discussion was silenced, people who thought these people were out of their frigging minds and tried to point out the enormous, yawning, gaping chasms in their position were silenced by shill repetition of playground taunts, like "You hate America!" and "Liberal!!!" Most of the voters who supported Bush and his band of neocon thug assholes are so indoctrinated by Fox, so brainwashed by Bill ("Go ahead, blow up San Francisco!") O'Reilly, they think that they're really saying something nasty! "Oooh, I got you, I called you a liberal!!" Children have to be taught to hate, and these children were taught for years that "liberal" was such a filty word, worse than the "n" word they use freely, that to call a white person like them a "L-word" was just the ultimate dismissal of everything that person says.

This childish, schoolyard taunting in lieu of actual grownup reasoning would be funny if the source of the Foxheads' slavish devotion wasn't a bunch of really arrogant and smug losers who have damaged the fragile stability of a region of the world and killed a bunch of people, woudn't it? Not to mention the damage done to our international reputation, our economy and our entire future. It's not funny. It's just really fucking disgusting.

Sometimes feel guilty about swearing too much, but, well, I do swear too much. I do use "bad language." I don't swear in inappropriate circumstances, I don't swear all the time, I am quite ladylike and appropriate in public and not hazardous to the ears of small children, but we're all grownups here, and sometimes the phrase "fucking asshole" just gets right to the point. So this cracked me up: My Left Wing. She can hold forth on the merits of a well placed Fuck anytime.

Funny how blogging takes me off on tangents. Today's topic was going to be all about my next knitted linen fantasy, and the whole Menopausal Weight Gain thing, aka, "Do I really have to be one of those annoying women who Can't Bring Themselves to Eat an Entire Hamburger for the rest of my goddamn life?"

I've sold a decent amount of yarn via the Bossy Doghouse Garage Sale. Enough to fill the gap with More Linen. Hey, it's mid-November and we're still hitting 80 during the day.