Gird Thyself

This post is a little more on the whole flypaper, fight 'em there meme.
It's looking more and more that the London bombings were retaliation against Britain for its role in the Iraq war and we should all just step back an review the bidding so far.

First of all, attacking Iraq had nothing to do with fighting terrorism and everything to do with revenge and oil.
Secondly, Saddam Hussein was never going to provide weapons of mass destruction to "the terrorists". He was, however, a bastard son of a bitch.
Thirdly, The completely unjustifiable invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq has failed to make anyone safer and has, in fact, made us all a lot less so.
So that is pretty much the game as it stands and so what can we expect the response from Bushco to be?

Wellll, we are already seeing calls to crank up the fight against terrorism.
You know the assholes in charge are going to crank up the volume and try and get us to buy into "let's keep at it" meme. We will be told that we need to have resolve and that we must persevere. Rove and Cheney will call those of us that dissent traitors or worse and accuse us of capitulation and giving "aid and comfort to the enemy".
They have demonstrated their willighness to wrap themselves in the flag and use the tragedy of 9/11 to further their own political ends and greed. If you think that the carnage in London is somehow off-limits for the same purpose you are a fool.

Those of us skeptical or critical of Cheney's foreign policy are going to have to realize that they have just gotten a second set of numbers 7/7 to add to the 9/11 and can now wrap themselves in the Union Jack as well as Old Glory. We are going to have to hunker down and prepare ourselve for more accusations of traitor, quitter, and lily livered liberal.