Is it safe? Part Deux

Is it safe? Part Deux

Riot Chases Troops Out of Iraqi Town

In the third straight day of Iraqi violence against the U.S. military occupation of the country, residents enraged over house-to-house searches in this western town ransacked the police station, stoned U.S. armored military vehicles and set police cars on fire Wednesday.

With a large, uncontrolled mob still roaming the streets as dusk fell, it was impossible to determine exactly what triggered the riot, but in a series of chaotic interviews laced with anti-American rage and threats of vengeance, residents said the problems began when police assisted the U.S. troops in searching local homes for weapons.

As night fell, there was no sign of either the police or U.S. forces in the town, and plumes of pitch-black smoke billowed into the air as the remains of two police cars burned along a main street. There were no immediate reports of casualties. The Pentagon said it was aware of anti-American disturbances in several cities Wednesday, including Hit.

Already this week, ambushes carried out in Hadithah, Baghdad and Fallouja have left four U.S. soldiers dead and 15 others wounded.

Again. Everyone laughed it off when we squeaked by in the war with Iraq. Because we had deep enough pockets to bribe the Republican Guards protecting Baghdad, Rummy's scripting of the Millennium Games didn't result in an unabashed quagmire of the actually war itself.

However, as we are now all painfully aware, the war may be short but the aftermath is forever. The same pattern we saw with the Millennium Games, which is also the exact same pattern shown by the economic disaster known as the Administration's tax cuts, is also the exact same pattern we are now witnessing with the occupation of Iraq.

Remember how we were supposed to be greeted as liberators? Well, except for a few dozen people pulling statues down in scripted affairs, there has been non-stop looting, rioting in Iraq. We're now on our second "administration" in Iraq, after the first one headed by James Garner screwed the pooch royally. We were told that Iraq was going to be unleashed in a libertarian love fest of free market capitalism which would flower into a liberal democracy.

I know it's silly to ask, but why on earth does anyone believe anything these people say? They game the system by scripting the simulations, suppressing reports that show the opposite of what they are purporting. They suppress any investigation that might show us what a complete bunch of idiots they are. And everyone just seems to be okay with this. Amazing.

It truly is an Orwellian world we live in.

But I'm sure glad we're safe. Hey, hand me that drill. Yea. The rusty one. I'm going for that molar in the back.