The Hollywood Liberal

by Michael O’McCarthy

Pick your headline:
Associated Press: As of Monday, Aug. 20, 2007, at least 3,707 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq
war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Associated Press: Bomb Kills Provincial Chief in Iraq AP 2007-08-20:
BAGHDAD A roadside bomb killed a governor in southern Iraq
on Monday, the second provincial boss assassinated in nine days and a
likely prelude to an even more brutal contest among rival Shiite militias battling for control of some of Iraq’s main oil regions.

Associated Press: WASHINGTON Aug 20, 2007
U.S. military officials are narrowing the range of Iraq strategy options and
appear to be focusing on reducing the U.S. combat role in 2008 while
increasing training of Iraqi forces,a senior military official told The Associated
Press on Monday.

There comes a time when the war is lost. It is known in-country by the
native population, in the region where the language of the people speaks louder
than the puppets can lie, in the White House, in the halls of Congress, by
veteran press corp members who can read the signs and are tipped by the Generals
in the field. The only one speaking of victory are the false conquerors to
keep face; to obscure the behind the scenarios as the seek to salvage from the
coming defeat whatever they can; to continue the lie to the nation for
whatever false patriotic pride can bring. Until their lies can be spun into “peace
with honor” or to blame the natives for loosing their own homeland to the
savages.

It came in Vietnam sometime in May of 1969 at a place called Hamburger Hill
near Hue where senseless U. S. losses took place over a piece of land soon
back in Viet Cong hands. Winning the war on the ground in-country had become as
impossible as winning the war at home. Over the next four years Nixon would
continue to loose the war while carpet bombing “north Vietnam” as a show of
force; as a masquerade for his right wing support.
Short of the use of the nuclear threat that Nixon would send by Kissinger
later, the war was over and Nixon’s “secret peace plan” was to reduce the
number of U.S. troops while negotiating the un-negotiable victory on behalf of a
independent “South Vietnam.” He would launch combat missions into Cambodia and
massive air carpet bombing to compensate for his withdrawal of ground forces
the his sneaking like thieves in the night out of the country.
The last U.S. troops head to the U.S. when on January 27, 1973 the last
American soldier to die in combat in Vietnam, Lt. Col. William B. Nolde is killed
and Dick Nixon declares that in the U. S. place will be the patriots of the
South Vietnamese regular army whose defeat is only battles away as Nixon
declares “peace with honor.”

Iraq, and the has come when the war is lost. It is known in-country by the
native population, in the region where the language of the people speaks
louder than the puppets can lie, in the White House, in the halls of Congress, by
veteran press corp members who can read the signs and are tipped by the
Generals in the field. The only one speaking of victory are the false conquerors
in the administration and running for office who seek to keep face; to obscure
the behind the scene manuevers as they seek to salvage from the coming
defeat whatever they can; to continue the lie to the nation for whatever false
patriotic pride can bring. Until their lies can be spun into “peace with honor”
or to blame the natives for loosing their own homeland to the savages.
In Iraq the only battle is to save the oil now that the nation is lost.
In Iraq, however, there is one small tactic missing from the previous U.S.
strategy of “peace with honor” in defeat: you can’t “nuke” Iraq back into the
stone age, as Kissinger threatened North Vietnam to “force them” to peace
table. The oil fields afire would be more than a defeat. It would be the launch
of an economic collapse worse than the “Great Depression.”

So now understand without hesitation, That Time Has Come, and there are only
two questions left to answer:
Who will declare this defeat “peace with honor?” Hillary Clinton? Joe Biden?
Duncan Hunter? Mitt Romney? The ex-mayor of New York? Pick one. Know without
a shadow of doubt that those conversations in the hall of Congress, in the
White House, by plugged-in news people, in the throne rooms of Islamic
royalty, that time has come and we can only await the announcement and the means by
which these opportunists will turn George Bush’s illegal war into a full
fledged U. S. defeat.
The last and most important question: Who will be the last U.S. soldier to
be sacrificed by them?