As if denying the U.S. ever had a civil war was not enough to establish how stark raving mad Rumsfeld has become (see here), he has recently blamed the problems in Iraq on...the weather (see here). I have already suggested that once Rummy finally gets his well-deserved pink slip from the Pentagon he should consider applying for a job at INGSOC, but perhaps Comedy Central will give him a chance as well. After all, rather than blaming the quagmire in Iraq on his own incompetence, he seriously blamed in on the weather. The weather! Take a minute to let that sink in just for good measure.
You see, Iraq is not descending into civil war because of our hopelessly misguided attempt to 'liberate' them but because it's so damn hot outside. If we can just 'stay the course' until the weather cools off a bit, they should go back to loving both their liberators and their neighbors. Even if we were able to take his suggestion seriously--which, of course, no rational human being could--it would not get the Bushies off the hook for what is going on in Iraq.
Keep in mind, one thing we were sure of before invading Iraq--besides the fact that they had oil we wanted and that they may still have had all the weapons of mass destruction that we sold them in the 1980's--was that it is pretty damn hot there year round. So if we go along with the 'they only hate us and kill one another because of the humidity' theory that Rummy has floated, we should have been able to predict that this would happen. For surely we knew it would be hot in Baghdad even if we did not know their reception of we liberators would be so painfully cool. Perhaps the Pentagon should consider hiring some meteorologists with the money they free up when they finally fire Rummy for embarrassing us for all the world to see with his 'candor', stupidity, and gross imcompetence.
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