RIGHT ADDRESS?
Continued resistance on the Iraqi front makes one wonder if we have the correct address affixed to our efforts to bring the country back to peaceful conditions?
It is becoming increasingly evident that the Iraqi opposition is getting large amounts of logistical and armament assistance from other sources interested in maintaining a "status un-quo" in the area. If such raids and counter-actions continue to grow, as they seem to be doing at the moment, are we ready and willing to take a closer look at our address books to determine if it might be necessary to deliver some serious messages of discouragement to other addresses in the immediate area - such as Iran, for example?
We have been subjected to much political drivel here at home about the apparently unsuccessful efforts to find "Weapons of Mass Destruction". We have heard the term so often. in fact that the media uses "WMD" and everyone knows what it is supposed to mean. It has become so common that it is a great deal like asking if a stray dog has fleas. The term itself has lost stature as it has been purposely restyled into a political party pinnate.
Why, I wonder, are both political extremes here, seemingly, so ready, even eager, to agree that no convincing evidence has yet been found within Iraq to substantiate any some accusation. Some politician opportunists among us have seemed to be overcome with a sort of almost apologetic attitude and they have stated that Saddam Husein, at no time, had such weapons. They do remember when Saddam Heusen himself proclaimed that he did and they forget, too, that he used them to kill Kurd citizens of the northern section of his own country.
I have a feeling that no one has really been surprised to find there is no strong evidence within Iraq. Such incriminating materials were moved out of the country well ahead of the arrival of United States troops. Look next door, Don't be in too much of a hurry to do so, however.
This weeks announcement by Iran that it does, after all, have nuclear capabilities and that it fully intends to “share” them with others in the form ”of power supplies only” comes at an interesting time.
Don't expect to hear much about it until our presidential election is completed. No one, in their right political mind, would even suggest right now that the war be expanded to include take out Iran's newly discovered funicular plants they didn't know they had. Those who helped to build them would be objects, as well, no doubt.
So, take it easy. Think about it, but don't go asking a lot of questions. Not right now, at least.
Never let your bladder get all a'bubble until you know, for sure, the exact location of, and the availability of , the nearest bathroom facility.
A.L.M. February 15, 2004 [c487wds]
