As the Bush Administration...
continually assures the American people that progress is being made in Iraq I thought the following data might provide us with a macabre counterbalance. In the first year of the war 5000 Iraqis were killed. In July 2006, 3438 Iraqis were killed! 1800 of these were killed in the city of Baghdad. So, if one were to extrapolate July's figures we discover that somewhere around 41,000 Iraqis will be killed during this current 12 month period. Now that's what I call 'Turning the corner'.
And the solution? The Americans don't have one nor do the coalition forces. Except to pump meaningless slogans and propaganda through the worlds airwaves they are clueless.
The Iraqi's, on the other hand, being a practical people have begun to take on the matter straightforwardly. The city of Baghdad is building two new morgues. When completed the cities morgues will be able to handle 250 corpses per day.
Wow, 250 stiffs a day! Looking forward, the Iraqis are preparing to handle over 91,000 bodies a year. Does this mean there really is progress in Iraq?
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx
MEXICO (as I see it):
When a Mexican driver passes his turn off by mistake he will never go around the block. He will make the correction then and there, on the spot.
If it means backing down a one way street, making a 'U' turn across 4 lanes of morning traffic or something really illegal, the Mexican driver will do it.
It must be noted that 'around the block' in Mexico often means half way around the world. Because there is no basic grid pattern in the city's traffic plan, one way streets, diagonal streets and 'glorietas' can make correcting a simple error a frustrating and time consuming labor of anything but love.
This is, in large part, the reason Mexican drivers insist on making the adjustment immediately no matter how outlandish the maneuver.
Sure, it's a dilemma but, still, human beings should strive for the most civilized solution in any given situation, don't you
think?
And the solution? The Americans don't have one nor do the coalition forces. Except to pump meaningless slogans and propaganda through the worlds airwaves they are clueless.
The Iraqi's, on the other hand, being a practical people have begun to take on the matter straightforwardly. The city of Baghdad is building two new morgues. When completed the cities morgues will be able to handle 250 corpses per day.
Wow, 250 stiffs a day! Looking forward, the Iraqis are preparing to handle over 91,000 bodies a year. Does this mean there really is progress in Iraq?
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx
MEXICO (as I see it):
When a Mexican driver passes his turn off by mistake he will never go around the block. He will make the correction then and there, on the spot.
If it means backing down a one way street, making a 'U' turn across 4 lanes of morning traffic or something really illegal, the Mexican driver will do it.
It must be noted that 'around the block' in Mexico often means half way around the world. Because there is no basic grid pattern in the city's traffic plan, one way streets, diagonal streets and 'glorietas' can make correcting a simple error a frustrating and time consuming labor of anything but love.
This is, in large part, the reason Mexican drivers insist on making the adjustment immediately no matter how outlandish the maneuver.
Sure, it's a dilemma but, still, human beings should strive for the most civilized solution in any given situation, don't you
think?
posted by bbuckman | 10:00 AM
1 Comments:
I like this post dad. You have a way of weeding through the bullshit and getting to the bottom line.
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