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Thursday, December 30, 2004
While we have been focused on the Banana dictatorships of the Middle East and Iraq in particular, the 800 pound gorilla of the Far East has been laying the groundwork for its coming changes of fortune.
China is about to bypass Japan as the 3rd most powerful economic power in the world, second only to the US and Germany.
With people+, our knowhow and money, increasing market share and an ever increasing monopoly on manufacturing along with the ability to defend it, they are a force to be reconed with.
Fortunately the President has a secret plan if China becomes too big a problem. We will simply invade them with our spare troops because they actually admit they do have WMD's, however the President has pledged to show restraint and the invasion will remain on hold pending the arrival of the latest supply of helmets, bullets and body armor from China.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:42 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, December 30, 2004 9:47 AM EST
Monday, December 27, 2004
We don't seem to hear much on the news about the upcoming elections in Iraq except that they are going to happen at the end of January and a lot of people, except for the President, think they shouldn't.
Nobody seems to know who the candidates are or what they are proposing (probably a good way to avoid getting shot) but with 60% of the country being Shiite this is not going to be a hard call.
Anybody given any thought to what we are going to do when the new Shiite government suggests we start packing and cozies up to Iran. Anybody mention which side we are going to take when the Sunni's and the Kurds start shooting the members of their newly elected government. Anybody going to take up a collection when the new government asks us for more aid or better yet war reparations?
Guess not.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 11:01 AM EST
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
We learned yesterday that the President actually has a plan for Iraq after all. Apparently it has been a secret. In that way it is different from Richard Nixon's secret plan to end the Vietnam War. That one was a secret plan. President Nixon told us it was a secret plan. President Bush's plan is an even better secret plan. It has been a "secret" secret plan.
In Nixon's plan we found out after his 1968 election that we were going to get out of Vietnam by turning all of the fighting over to the Vietnamese Army. "Vietnamization" he called it. After seven years of his plan we turned the fighting over to the South Vietnamese. They ran and we left Vietnam.....quickly. Plan worked.
In President Bush's "Iraqitization" Plan we are going to turn the fighting over to the Iraqi's and then we can leave and because they are already running it looks like this plan will work even better.
Just goes to show that great minds run in the same circles.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 10:57 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, December 21, 2004 1:06 PM EST
Monday, December 20, 2004
Seventy people blown up in Iraq yesterday. Three bodyguards and an election official were hauled out of their car in the middle of the street and executed. Ten Iraqi employees of an American company were abducted and are still missing.
We're not even to the election yet and they claim it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Maybe it's time for a new approach. Maybe we should do something we haven't tried up to this point. Maybe we should make.............. a plan.
I know it's novel. We haven't tried it in Iraq before but plans do have a history of working on occasion. All we need is someone in the administration with planning experience, a knack for winning difficult elections at all costs and someone who we all believe should go to Iraq and carry out ..........a "plan".
Let's send Karl Rove!
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:17 AM EST
Sunday, December 19, 2004
Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld continues to take his hits over our Iraq policy. The latest flap is over his not personally signing letters to families of fallen soldiers. He prefers to let a computer do it.
However, he still enjoys the absolute confidence of the President and there is no doubt he will stay on. After all, if Rumsield leaves, who is left to blame?
Think about it.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 6:15 PM EST
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Well it was bound to happen. We've run out of money. The President has said so. He's cutting the budget, especially on domestic spending.
Seems he's finally learned Basic Math and was astonished to discover that when the numbers going out consistently exceed the numbers coming in, eventually you run out of numbers to play with.
Fortunately his friends in business who financed his campaign last month when the President pronounced that the "numbers were good" won't have that problem 'cause that's where the numbers going out went.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:22 AM EST
Friday, December 17, 2004
The President is about to sign the controversial Intelligence Reform Bill which everyone wanted but didn't seem to want to vote for.
Seems the problem is that our intelligence system is overly bureaucratic and no one communicates with each other. Seems the solution to our intelligence problem is to make it bigger with another layer of bureacracy where we can have more people who don't talk to each other.
Once we correct the problem with this solution, what will we do if there is another terrorist incident. Downsize, Upsize or Outsource?
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 9:32 AM EST
Thursday, December 16, 2004
FEEL GOOD NEWS.
The White House has figured out how to pay for the social security shortfalls by giving your money to the gamblers on Wall Street. They have eliminated the shortage of troops and equipment in Iraq by recycling. And they have calculated that the unprecedented record deficit and debt we have accrued in less than four years can always be solved with more tax cuts. Meanwhile our other problems have been solving themselves.
Local governments no longer have to worry about financial problems. Because of state and federal mandate policies they no longer have any money to worry about. The government took it. Worry problem solved.
Iraq will also soon be a problem of the past. That's because we can get worried over China where everything we use is being manufactured with our money that is no longer worth much and will soon be their money anyway. Fortunately they aren't developing missles and WMD's. They're upgrading them.
Our education policy problem is solved too. Everyone takes standardized tests except the politicians who couldn't pass them and won't pay for them.
And how about our highly touted missle defense system. After numerous delays in launching it finally managed to fail all together. Fortunately whatever enemy it is supposed to shoot down doesn't seem to be to worried about us. I wonder why.
Well at least we can still count on our old standby baseball. As soon as they get back from rehab.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 11:08 AM EST
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
The President has tied the record with Richard Nixon for having cabinet members bailing out at the end of the first administration. Kind of leaves you wondering if they know something we don't?
And since Homeland Security nominee Bernard Kerik took a hike before he took the job the rumor is the White House wants to tap Joe Lieberman for Homeland Security chief but Joe doesn't seem to be interested either. So what does he know?
Meanwhile they're talking more and more about recounts on those electronic voting machines. What do they know?
Are you getting a feeling of "deja vous" all over again?
Must be something in the cyberspace.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 10:06 AM EST
Updated: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:25 AM EST
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
The democratic elections in Iraq are getting closer and everyone concerned,............ is concerned. That's because it doesn't look so good. Nobody even seems to know who's running and the general concensus is that there is a better than even chance that someone we don't like could win.
This idea of forcing "democratic elections" in countries who don't have a tradition of democracy generally is a bad one. In the end the outcomes are never what you hoped for and the direction is always different than what you planned. And when it all goes sour, you get blamed.
I think we would be much better off promoting "republic elections" where the people vote and then a small group of political "wise men" interpret the results and install whom they please as president.
Works for us.
Posted by donburnshomepage
at 10:49 AM EST
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