trifecta
"You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta." —President George W. Bush, Charlotte, North Carolina, Feb. 27, 20021
For some time now, people around the world have been trying to guess Bush's War Trifecta . 2 Afghanistan and Iraq, sure, those are the easy ones. But who will we topple next? Iran? Syria? North Korea? Just as you think you have the sure thing picked out, the deck is again shuffled.
Hopefully, we will never know. Hopefully, Bush and all his monkeys will be voted out of office in 2006 and 2008 (Dare I hope that my own Senator, Senator Allard, one of the five worst senators, goes too?)3
But the building of permanent bases does bring a shadow over these hopes. It's kind of funny that Congress voted against the continuation of the construction for permanent bases in Iraq and cut off funding. 4
However, they did not cut off funding for the war, so I imagine those bases have not seen a loss of money. Ha ha, kind of a left hand, right hand situation, get it?
Now all someone needs to do is stop the expansion of our permanent base in South Korea.
A little recap if you will. Known in South Korea as 6-25, the 1950 war divided the country along the 38th parallel. It is the most heavily fortified border in the world.5 Oddly enough, the war was between a Democracy and a Republic. I guess there are many places where "Democracy" doesn't really mean it.
What was the war about? Who knows?6 And more importantly, how the hell does anyone see North Korea as a threat?
Yeah, I know, they have:
1. a million-man army ready to cross a demilitarized zone just 25 miles from Seoul
2. array of missiles that can reach Japan from a launching site in Taepodong,
3. missiles that could hit Alaska.
4. exports missile parts and know-how. Iran's Shahab-3 missiles, for instance, owe much to North Korean technology
thanks http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_02/b3815043.htm
Oooh, and let's not for get this beauty of TERROR. North Korea counterfeits our money!!!! 7
Okay, they also have some nuclear weapons. But seriously folks, North Korea isn't going to do anything (without immense US provocation and cornering) and everyone knows it.
I mean, why would they bomb Alaska? And run the risk of losing that oil? 8 We have 32,000 troops stationed in South Korea now. We plan to add another 20,000.
Hence, the expansion of the US base in Daechuri. Paying, bribing, bullying and bulldozing the residents away from this suddenly urgent need to flex our muscles for the North.
Really, what it is doing it adding to the Trifecta. The Trifecta of Terrorists, as I like to call it. You see, now that we have alienated the civilians of Afghanistan and Iraq and sent them running to the arms of our worst enemies, we would like to do the same with Korea. Both of them, in fact.
The real problem with the permanent base is that for some reason, South Korea doesn't see their neighbors as their biggest threat. We hold that honor. But perhaps this is true wherever our permanent bases are constructed. Because a weeks worth of protesting in a supposedly democratic nation that ends with suppression, water cannons, barbed wire and over 200 Koreans injured, does not mean a warm welcome for the US troops occupying the new base. Or the country those troops come from. US. 9
~Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government
http://goodusgov.org/
1 http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism-trifecta.htm
2 http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=trifecta
3 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4627027,00.html
4 http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/9104/1/321/
5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12591413/
6 http://www.answers.com/topic/korean-war
7 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4672902.stm
8 http://www.alaskawild.org/campaigns_arctic_oil_more.html
9 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/13052006/323/thousands-south-korea-urge-troops-leave.html
For some time now, people around the world have been trying to guess Bush's War Trifecta . 2 Afghanistan and Iraq, sure, those are the easy ones. But who will we topple next? Iran? Syria? North Korea? Just as you think you have the sure thing picked out, the deck is again shuffled.
Hopefully, we will never know. Hopefully, Bush and all his monkeys will be voted out of office in 2006 and 2008 (Dare I hope that my own Senator, Senator Allard, one of the five worst senators, goes too?)3
But the building of permanent bases does bring a shadow over these hopes. It's kind of funny that Congress voted against the continuation of the construction for permanent bases in Iraq and cut off funding. 4
However, they did not cut off funding for the war, so I imagine those bases have not seen a loss of money. Ha ha, kind of a left hand, right hand situation, get it?
Now all someone needs to do is stop the expansion of our permanent base in South Korea.
A little recap if you will. Known in South Korea as 6-25, the 1950 war divided the country along the 38th parallel. It is the most heavily fortified border in the world.5 Oddly enough, the war was between a Democracy and a Republic. I guess there are many places where "Democracy" doesn't really mean it.
What was the war about? Who knows?6 And more importantly, how the hell does anyone see North Korea as a threat?
Yeah, I know, they have:
1. a million-man army ready to cross a demilitarized zone just 25 miles from Seoul
2. array of missiles that can reach Japan from a launching site in Taepodong,
3. missiles that could hit Alaska.
4. exports missile parts and know-how. Iran's Shahab-3 missiles, for instance, owe much to North Korean technology
thanks http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_02/b3815043.htm
Oooh, and let's not for get this beauty of TERROR. North Korea counterfeits our money!!!! 7
Okay, they also have some nuclear weapons. But seriously folks, North Korea isn't going to do anything (without immense US provocation and cornering) and everyone knows it.
I mean, why would they bomb Alaska? And run the risk of losing that oil? 8 We have 32,000 troops stationed in South Korea now. We plan to add another 20,000.
Hence, the expansion of the US base in Daechuri. Paying, bribing, bullying and bulldozing the residents away from this suddenly urgent need to flex our muscles for the North.
Really, what it is doing it adding to the Trifecta. The Trifecta of Terrorists, as I like to call it. You see, now that we have alienated the civilians of Afghanistan and Iraq and sent them running to the arms of our worst enemies, we would like to do the same with Korea. Both of them, in fact.
The real problem with the permanent base is that for some reason, South Korea doesn't see their neighbors as their biggest threat. We hold that honor. But perhaps this is true wherever our permanent bases are constructed. Because a weeks worth of protesting in a supposedly democratic nation that ends with suppression, water cannons, barbed wire and over 200 Koreans injured, does not mean a warm welcome for the US troops occupying the new base. Or the country those troops come from. US. 9
~Lila Schow
Because Responsible Citizens Clean Up After Their Government
http://goodusgov.org/
1 http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism-trifecta.htm
2 http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=trifecta
3 http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4627027,00.html
4 http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/9104/1/321/
5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12591413/
6 http://www.answers.com/topic/korean-war
7 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4672902.stm
8 http://www.alaskawild.org/campaigns_arctic_oil_more.html
9 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/13052006/323/thousands-south-korea-urge-troops-leave.html
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