The dumbest statement of the decade 

I saw a rather disturbing thing while on the treadmill at my local gym today. And no it wasn’t the hideously overweight thing that waddles across the floor at 6.30 every day. Someone so fat I still haven’t figured out whether it is female or male, as to how one eats oneself to the point of asexuality I don’t know. No the rather disturbing thing I saw was on the TV screen in front of me, where the figures flashed on CNN showing the projected cost of the Iraq and Afghan war for the next 10 years, a rather jaw dropping 14 trillion dollars.

An impressive figure but one of those that is really in the end too large to comprehend but then CNN did something very smart (I know I was surprised myself). They broke it down, that’s $8,000 per person over the next 10 years. I was so surprised my knee buckled and almost ended up face first on the person next to me. Giving the girl a rather weak smile I straightened by knee with a quick blow to its back and went back to running and tried to slowly absorb this figure. 

Now that’s a fair fucking amount of money and of course it being a true democracy out here when there are costs for such a thing like a war both the rich and the poor (and of course the middle class) will probably pay equally for it. To be honest I don’t want to pay. I mean the Afghan war maybe. After all those Islamasists (as one person I know who despite being nice is rather stupid refers to them as) flew planes into those towers and killed some 3,000 people. Fine, I mean most of the nutcases were Saudi but apparently they were being kept in bed and breakfast by those turbaned nutters the Taleban. So smoke them out, that I can understand.

Of course 6 years after the event apparently Bin Laden is still waltzing around with his dialysis machine and is nowhere being closer to being caught than when he was being groomed by the CIA to fight the Russians. Then we get Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with September 11, a country that was pretty much secular that was invaded on the pretext of a preemptive strike in the ‘war against terror’ by a president who cheated his way into the White House. Riiight…so Saddam (who is..er..was..I will endorse a complete wanker) was captured, executed, no weapons of mass destruction were found and a bollocking shit storm was ignited in the newly liberated land. 

What was really funny was how within a few months of the invasion and it was painfully obvious no weapons of mass destruction to be found, suddenly the nitwit who leads the land of the free was bleating the line of ‘saving the Iraqi people.’ Of course while they are busy saving them they haven’t even bothered keeping count of how many have lost their lives. I mean that’s a bit strange, you go into ‘save’ some people and don’t bother keeping count of how many have died since you ‘saved’ them.

Anyways I could go on ad naseum about how stupid all this is, how those people who lost their lives back in 2001 have still not seen justice, how the old white men have fooled the American people and made a bundle of money but then I’d be here all day. The bottom line is I don’t want to pay, I have better things to spend my money on than paying Blackwater to knock off Iraqi civilians. And my solution is rather simple. Get the triumvirate of fools who started this mess, George, Cheney and Rumsfield pay around 80% of their wealth. I think that would be fair. I don’t know about Rumsfeld but Cheney seems to rake in a fair amount of dough and George is rolling in it. 

So you three wankers, put your bloody money where your mouth is, pay up!