[Peace-discuss] Alea iacta est

[E.Wayne Johnson]

It's a hoot. and it has an outcast like me shaken, and casting about for 
something aleatoric to roll out.

I am not sure if I mentioned it in this forum before or not... but 
"sycophant"
literally means to display a fig [sukon], and figuratively speaking the fig 
represents
"the female pudendum" as the American Heritage dictionary puts it.

Ass-kissing chicken-shit is the bowderized version of sycophant, sort of.

*
BTW, the common term for sycophant in Chinese is "pamapi" which means to 
"Pat the Horse's Ass".


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "peace discuss" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:09 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Alea iacta est


David Petraeus Announces for President After All
Submitted by davidswanson on Wed, 2010-05-26
http://asskissinglittlechickenshit.com

My name is General David Petraeus and I want to be your Commander in Chief
because I admire everything about you, especially that amazing and unique 
way
you have about you.

Here's a little background on who I am, just a few highlights that I know 
you
will be able to appreciate.

In 2007, Gareth Porter reported:

"In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of 
the
U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior, Admiral
William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided Petraeus as 
a
sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March, according to
Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.

"Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be 'an ass-kissing little
chickenshit' and added, 'I hate people like that', the sources say. That 
remark
reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks that 
Fallon
interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior."

Fallon's problem was actually that he didn't want to escalate the war in 
Iraq,
and I did.  He lost, and I won.  Well, the people who died lost too, but you
know what I mean.  We put more blood on the ground in Iraq, and through a
combination of utter devastation, displacement, segregation, bribery,
corruption, withdrawal, and promises to leave, we were able to pretend that 
wars
of occupation are ended by escalating them.  This is paying off BIG TIME 
right
now in Afghanistan.

We all know Afghanistan can't be won except by withdrawal, but we're going 
to
escalate.  The counterinsurgency manual that I pretend I wrote says we need 
to
put 80% of our effort into civilian solutions.  We're going with 3% instead, 
as
a compromise with real world conditions on the ground, such as the fact that
they're all a bunch of Muslim Arabs or some such thing!

And, because you idiots think we have a peace prize winner in charge now, 
I'm
expanding our efforts with death squads into a number of neighboring 
nations,
including Iran, which is going to be the real big one, I mean really really, 
I
mean my mouth starts watering at the thought of how much blood is going to 
flow,
I can just feel the taste of it bubbling down my throat, I . . .  I . . 
.ahem,
I mean to say, the New York Times has given credit where it's due:

"The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Petraeus, 
authorizes
the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly and 
hostile
nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa to gather
intelligence and build ties with local forces. Officials said the order also
permits reconnaissance that could pave the way for possible military strikes 
in
Iran if tensions over its nuclear ambitions escalate. While the Bush
administration had approved some clandestine military activities far from
designated war zones, the new order is intended to make such efforts more
systematic and long term, officials said."

Damn straight.  And it's got the hippies running scared.  Here's Robert 
Dreyfuss
in the Nation:

"If President Obama knew about this, authorized it, and still supports it, 
then
Obama has crossed a red line, and the president will stand revealed as an
aggressive, militaristic liberal interventionist who bears a closer 
resemblance
to the president he succeeded than to the ephemeral reformer that he 
pretended
to be in 2008, when he ran for office. If he didn’t know, if he didn’t
understand the order, and if he’s unwilling to cancel it now that it’s been
publicized, then Obama is a feckless incompetent. Take your pick.   If 
Congress
has any guts at all, it will convene immediate investigative hearings into a
power grab by Petraeus, a politically ambitious general, and the Pentagon’s
arrogant Special Operations team, led by Admiral Eric T. Olson, who 
collaborated
with Petraeus. And Congress needs to ask the White House: what did you know, 
and
when did you know it?"

My favorite bit is "If Congress has any guts."  Let me let you in on a 
little
secret.  I've been to testify in Congress, and those clowns mostly beat up 
on
each other and kissed my ass.  I testified there in September, 2007, for
example, and toward the end of the hearing Rep. Brad Sherman asked me what I
would do if Congress ended funding for the occupation of Iraq and Bush 
ordered
me to continue with it anyway.  I told that chump I would have to ask my 
lawyer,
and he let it go.  Ha!  And people think there's a legislative branch of
government running things.  Come on!  I tell them what to think before the 
hearings!

I even tell them things they will never remember when I tell them the 
opposite
and show them how the new story will protect them from the heathen hordes. 
Like
when I told them I would never run for office.  James Madison said, "If 
Tyranny
and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a 
foreign
enemy."  It's here, children, and you are going to love it!

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