I Don't Believe You Believe the White House - Or Its Media; NOBODY Is That Stupid.

“One flew east, and one flew west, and one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.”

“Victory is the only option.” Over and over and over. Is that the call of a particular species of bird? It must be – nothing with a bigger brain would say something as totally devoid of reasoning thought. It’s like punching your answering machine. You hit the button and out comes the message that’s been put there. The machine doesn’t think, either.

All the nation’s great minds can think of nothing better to say than THAT? All of the genius that split the atom, put men on the moon, does open heart surgery, can create life in a test tube, and a hundred things even more difficult, can’t think of something better in Iraq than “victory?”

First off, what the hell are we talking about? What IS victory? Do pundits like those telecast on CNN, Fox, and the rest mean the people of Iraq come out cheering and throwing roses? They throw their weapons in the Tigris and start raising flowers? They repudiate their centuries old religion by establishing a U.S. style corporate democracy (i.e., an oligarchy of the fabulously rich)? They open their country to our absolute control, let us wield our IRS, for instance, and tax the hell out of them? Give us control of their oil?

WHAT? What’s this “victory” all the hoo-rah birds are nattering about?

Now, I’ve always been brighter than most (sorry – matter of record), but it doesn’t take the proverbial rocket scientist to see the utter folly of what these supposed wisemen are stumping for. NOBODY capable of reading the script these guys seem to have been handed and are reading is that stupid.

I’ll tell you something else. I don’t believe the “victory is the only option” people are THAT warped by their ideology, their religion, or what have you. I don’t think even Ann Coulter really believes anything that obviously nonsensical (go back and read the questions again; dream up your own – what do you mean “victory?!)

This must be what it’s like to be in an asylum for the insane (or is it Oceania?). The inmates – male and female; it’s that kind of country, too, you know - are skirmishing every day about who gets to compromise the chastity of the Queen of France. There IS no Queen of France, of course. Not to anyone outside the asylum, that is. There’s no KING of France, either. Of course.

Play with it. What does “compromise” mean? “Victory?” Which is imaginary, the Queen, the King, or the skirmishing – verbal or worse – over who gets - or who has already gotten - to “compromise” - the “Queen?”

Let’s see how a rational being – one like the Queen of France, for instance, would work this out. First, all of the “Victory is the only option” birds are agreed that we are the most powerful nation on earth. They natter that almost as often – and they’ve been so nattering for most of my life – as they recite that “victory option” thing.

Okay, given. Next, the same “Victory Birds” say that “defeat,” “cut and run” is – well, there’s nothing worse. It’s unthinkable. Hmmmmm.

“Defeat” is the opposite of victory – or isn’t it?! Maybe we’d do better to ask what “defeat” is.

Anyway, defeat means terrible consequences for the United States. We are told. Thinking for oneself of course . . . well that’s “unthinkable,” too. Traitorous.

And terrible consequences for the world, of course. What’s good for the Unites States is good for the world (doesn’t General Motors hold the copyright on that one?). That’s our main purpose, after all, to save the world for democracy (and just a little “American” business? Maybe?). Defeat means terrible things for our national security?

Excuse me. Excuse me? The most powerful nation in the world’s security would be “compromised” (that’s the word we always hear, isn’t it?), were we to leave Iraq?
Okay – how?

I mean, having spent $15,000,000,000,000 (that’s fifteen trillion dollars) on our military since World War Two, with fourteen nuclear aircraft carriers – two in every ocean - sixty-eight (how many is THAT per ocean?) nuclear submarines armed with enough ICBMs to obliterated civilization several hundred times, and so on and so on and so on, we are in danger from a nation basically living in the fourteenth century and offering what resistance it can to our occupation with only small arms and “improvised explosive devices?”

HUH?

Spending upwards of $100,000,000,000 yearly on police and security forces, with scores of spying satellites, video cameras and listening devices everywhere in a manner that can only be described as Orwellian, with all right to privacy - even in one's own bedroom and bathroom - held hostage by the government, we're not safe? We'd better get another watchdog.

Return with me, if you will, to another of these missions to protect the security of our country – and, of course, save mankind – that of South Vietnam. Victory was the only option there, too – remember? After a while, though, “victory” came to have certain . . . definitions. The definitions . . . well, let’s just say they weren’t easy to equate with anything in the real world - anyone’s day-to-day life, that is. Finally, we just declared victory – AND WE CAME HOME.

Look around. Do you see any sign of the devastation resulted from out “victory?” Or was it “defeat?” If everything were to happen just as it did after our “defeat” – or was it “victory? – in Vietnam, would that be so bad?
If “defeat” – well, we didn’t win, did we (or DID we – was there an agreed definition then; or were we then as we are now, just not mentioning trivial things like that) – in Iraq were to wreak the kind of havoc that defeat in Vietnam did, would that be so bad, really?

WHY?

The “greatest county on earth” is so vulnerable, so pitifully puerile, that to simply admit it made a mistake - bit off more than we could chew – would cause its “defeat?” To simply leave Iraq, as more than seventy percent of the public there want us to do (so much for democratic ideals), would be to “cut and run?” We couldn’t bear to have people say that?

REALLY?

Tell me something – would “defeat” be all that bad? Really? What, somebody would rampage through our streets, like the Vikings of old, raping pillaging, burning? The economy would collapse? Our children would starve? The government would fall? Our way of life would vanish from the earth?

You’re kidding!

You’re kidding and I don’t believe you believe that. Uh-uh. I’m not stupid. The last time anybody checked, my IQ was in the 160s. I put myself through high school, while living in a sod hut by the Little Cedar River back home. At one time, I had UN interpreter certification for seven languages besides English. I do complicated math like calculus in my head. For seventeen years after my military career, I was among the most successful private detectives in the nation. That’s applied epistemology and forensics and fact situation determination, not the half-baked, jump-to-conclusion-on-the-basis-of-the-first-two-pieces-of-evidence-that-come-together, pseudo-forensics and FBI science.

Of six disappeared children whose parents came to me rather than turn the fate of their children over to people the caliber of those who constitute our Pink Panther constabulary these, I recovered four. Had it not been for massive interference by the stumbling incompetent of the federal government – with a head as big as that of the typical federal official it’s hard to keep one’s balance – I recovered four of six young women and children lost to the white slavery rings of the Iran-Peru-Central American axis (you don’t really think it’s mere co-incidence that we have 144,000 missing women and children in the U.S., right across all but wide open borders from a nation where kidnapping for ransom and sexual slavery is a major industry – do you?).

I first conceived, and wrote the original tactical doctrine T.O.& E. for what is no called the S.W.A.T. teams. S.E.A.L. Team Six and the like were MY idea – in 1958.

I fought to a standstill the federal government – i.e., most powerful Sicherheitdienst in human history, that of the Internal Revenue Service. It was they, don't forget, who were forced to hide behind the legal fiction of national security exemption - sound familiar? - when I sued for the records that would have, to quote none other than the judge, "irreparably damage the tax collection system of the United States." The "Nation of Laws," in other words, lied. Sound familiar?

I’m far from stupid, in other words, and I don’t believe any of this puerile, pundit-purveyed pap. I don’t believe a nation of people reared and educated to think rationally and for themselves – competent in their own best interests – would choose knowingly to believe – to “buy” – the nonsensical, absurd twaddle being disseminated by people like Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, and their pontificating, bloviating ilk (how in the hell do people of that caliber get a national soap box?).

I don’t believe that anyone familiar with the most basic axioms of formal logic is so addled by CIA MKULTRA-like behavioral conditioning that he doesn’t recognize for what it is balderdash like “aid and comfort to the enemy” charges levied against anyone who recognizes, for instance, the war in Iraq and the mendacious propaganda that justified it. That’s ad hominem on its face, and it is circular, begging the question fallacy at its heart. It’s ridiculous.

Who MADE the people shooting at us our enemy?

When my house is burglarized and I catch a man running in the street, throw him down and begin beating him, I should continue the pounding even after I realize that I have the wrong man – because otherwise, I’m giving aid and comfort to criminals? Otherwise, I’m “cutting and running?” That’s ridiculous.

When my son’s mother arrives as I’m punishing him for stealing the cookies she now says she took to the neighbors as a gift, I should continue the punishment, rather than admit that I’ve jumped to conclusions, made an error.

That’s ridiculous!

That I mention here no one from the political left is because I have little idea who the leading lights of that form of nonsense are. They are only, after all, the opposition in the debate over who will seduce the Queen of France. (Will she “surrender?” Will her suitors “cut and run,” disgraced for their limp-dickedness. Does it make a difference that there IS no . . . oh, never mind!).

NOBODY WHO HAS A NORMAL MENTALITY IS THIS STUPID! Nobody with experience and education sufficient to get along in daily life is so “challenged” mentally as to accept the relentlessly illogical and patently false “news” being spewed daily, hour by hour, at the public by the government and its media propagandists. Think about it. If you think this is all real, I’ve got some ocean-front property in Arizona . . . And there’s this bridge across the East River. The money I owe you is in the mail, and I won’t . . . well I might.

Anybody whom you’ve been screwing the way you have all these years might.