Waiting for an Idea (original post: The Random Pattern Weekly 1/6/2007)

President George W. Bush seemed to artfully dodge reporters for most of the last week. What with the death of Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein, the press largely had no interest in America’s great thinker.

Therefore it all must be over now except the singing, right?  W’s courage appeared, followed by his Mission Accomplished.  His heart appeared as democracy expanded and flourished into the Middle East. All this and now Dorothy’s coming home because ding dong the witch died December 30^th.

That’s not the way it’s going down though. Dorothy is not coming home. In fact, Dorothy is getting shipped off to Iraq, because the Scarecrow is still trying to find his brain. Although, maybe that’s not entirely fair. The Scarecrow isn’t so much trying to find a brain as he’s just trying to come up with an idea. Or even a strategy if you will. A nugget would suffice in a pinch. At this point a good reason for being in Iraq would probably quiet quite a few people in the world and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

Amidst George W’s struggle for a nugget, the situation in Iraq continues to become harder to saturate with democracy.

Iraqi Prime Minister wants to resign

Nuri al-Maliki no longer has the heart to keep carrying out his duty as Iraqi Prime Minister. Not only has he declined a second term in office, but he has flat out said he wants to be done with his first term as soon as possible.

This should present a bit of concern to anyone interested in seeing a stable Iraq. Nuri al-Maliki was just sworn into office May of 2006. Less than a year into a four year term, in the first Iraqi government to follow the Transitional Government, Iraq’s leadership dissolves into a job at Burger King.

“This job sucks man. I can’t wait until I get another job so I can quit this one.”

On the positive side, I’m sure there is somebody waiting in the wings with a Colt .45 willing to take the leadership position off al-Maliki’s hands. On the downside, he really seemed to start out with some promise.  Depending on your point of view.

Intelligence Briefing: Iraq Struggles to Form a Government (5/8/06)

 

Saddam death criticized

The security situation in Iraq is pretty bad, so it may be better that someone more rigid and less democratic take over there anyway. People took video of Saddam’s execution with camera phones and the world is in an uproar. Never mind that IUD’s go off every day and eviscerate thousands. Iraqi executioners taunted Saddam before he went.

Couldn’t they have allowed him a dignified death?

Why couldn’t they just allowed the rope to pull taut followed by a pant-load full of feces?

Dignity in death is an inalienable right (I think that’s in the Constitution somewhere) so it’s good that some of the U.S.’s top commanders in Iraq are distancing themselves from this execution.

Major General William Caldwell said, Americans didn’t have anything to do with the “facility where the execution took place.” Did you see that dump? Americans wouldn’t put a toilet in there, let alone kill a murderer of thousands.

However, Caldwell’s statement does leave open the possibility that Americans may have had something to do with Hussein being executed. It’s a drawn out logic, but starts with WMD’s and finishes with Bush’s latest idea and all the while you can only blame Bush for being a dreamer. It sure would be a good thing to spread peace.

It sure would be a good thing to spread peace and I wish someone could figure out how to do it.

It’s certainly reassuring to know that George W is still "in the process of making up [his] final decision as to what to recommend" this late the game though. If you can say anything about W: you can say, he is a problem-involver.