"He could have been in ..."From Maureen Dowd's latest
column. About Rumsfeld:
"He didn't worry about the culture in Iraq," said Bernard Trainor, the retired Marine general who is ... the co-author of "Cobra II." "He just wanted to show them the front end of an M-1 tank. He could have been in Antarctica fighting penguins. He didn't care, as long as he could send the message that you don't mess with Hopalong Cassidy. He wanted to do to Saddam in the Middle East what he did to Shinseki in the Pentagon, make him an example, say, 'I'm in charge, don't mess with me.' "
Fighting penguins. That's probably the next step after Iran.
posted by Quiddity at 4/19/2006 01:27:00 AM
All the penguins have to do, to avoid invasion, is give up their WMDs.
There is a cartoonist who has already told the story of the US war on Antarctica:
http://archive.salon.com/comics/boll/2002/09/26/boll/index.html
Both those links are great (sven, brainhell). Check 'em out readers!
Amy Goodman interviewed the Cobra II authors on Democracy Now a month ago or so.
The General seemed decent enough, but the other guy was, for example, the co-author of one of Judith Miller's more outrageous pieces of warmongering.
I found them both to be fairly decent defenders of what went on before the war.
