Iraq is the new (insert name of country here)
Every day, I feel more sorry for Iraqis. As noted in last month, Bush and other Republicans keep confusing Iraq with other countries. This time, they think that we can just keep a bunch of soldiers there like we have with South Korea. The Defeatists explain why this won't work. Korea, for those of you who skipped geography, is a peninsula with a lot of mountains, etc....Capitalist Buddhist Christian Confucian Japanese hating kimchee makers to the south; starving, lobotomized, goose-stepping animists ( I consider Kim Il Song and all the rest of the northern gang on a par with baboons...) to the north. The border is the most heavily mined, guarded, militarized stretch in the world. Makes the old Berlin Wall look like cheesecake. Makes the proposed wall on our southern border look like a turtle fence. There are constant probes, tunnels, etc, but for the most part bad guys to the north, our guys to the south. Iraq is, as we say about Texas, a whole other country. In Northern Irela...