FROM BAD TO WORST

It was wonderful that President Obama fired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, America's top General in Afghanistan, for all the damage he has done to our country. The General should have been summarily fired for his role in the cover up of the Pat Tillman friendly fire death six years ago, as part of the despicable campaign to turn football hero turned war volunteer Tillman into a war party's propaganda dream. McChrystal and other reprehensible military leaders, trashed the truth that US slugs killed Tillman. McChrystal knew the truth within 24 hours but five days later approved his Silver Star, earned not by blocking friendly fire, but "in the line of withering enemy fire".

Sadly, President Obama, foolishly pretending that our Afghan war is both legal and winnable, replaced McChrystal with General David Petraeus, the same General who enabled the endless continuation of our equally illegal Iraq war by paying off the insurgents to stop fighting with cold hard cash. Never mind that over four million Iraqis are dead, injured, tortured, imprisoned or refugees from our thirst for empire in the Middle East. Petraeus has never met a criminal war of choice he didn't love for another opportunity to be hailed as a military genius. Just yesterday he said the the Afghan war can be won, somehow forgetting his military education about the "graveyard of empires."

It's long past time to fire McChrystal, Petraeus and every General who makes such delusional boasts, and bring every last soldier home from the pitiful lands we have devastated to promote American exceptionalism.

Wait, we can't do that. Endless criminal war is the only job stimulus program the war party, both Republicans and Democrats, will approve to save our dying homeland.

Also publihsed in Daily Herald, July 19, 2010

GET STEELE A TIME SLOT

If RNC Chairman Michael Steele is fired for trashing the GOP mantra that The Afghan war is both necessary and winnable by saying just the opposite, that it is unnecessary and unwinnable (and falsely linking it to President Obama as his failed war of choice rather than President Bush's), then the least we can do for the soon to be ex RNC Chairman, is give him a show on Comedy Central. He is an unintended but hilarious natural comedian.