Water Water Everywhere...

Hey, fellow Americans? Want to see your military disgracing themselves on video? Care to see what the real American presence in Iraq looks like? Here's a video of some American troops taunting an Iraqi youth with a bottle of water. Hope you haven't eaten anything today...



"Thanks" to my friend Vineet for sending me this horrorshow. I can't decide which part I like best...The GI's laughing at the kid as he chases their truck, desperate for a small bottle of water, the soldier yelling "are you getting this? are you getting this?" to his friend, obviously hoping to watch the video later and laugh some more, or the fact that they don't even give the kid the water in the end.

What the hell are we doing over there again? Schoolyard taunts? Maybe this is an American training video for the new Iraqi Army. "How to be huge, thoughtless dicks that dehumanize everyone who doesn't look like you. Just like us! USA! USA!"

Look, it's not possible to win, okay? When Henry Kissinger says it's not possible to win, that means it's not fucking possible to win. He's a goddamn war criminal! (Did you know that H. Kissinger has to phone ahead to other countries he intends to visit, to make sure they're not planning to arrest him at the airport?) That would be like Bush hiring Idi Amin as an advisor, and then that guy telling him, "Look, I think you should back off on the killing. Self-control, dude! It's getting out of hand."

I think we're facing the distinct possibility that Iraq is gone and will never exist again. It was already a tentative coalition when we arrived there and plunged the place into chaos. What made us think we could rearrange all the pieces properly in a matter of weeks again? Oh yeah, severe mental retardation, I forgot.