Bush Goes a Bridge Too Far

war stories: Military analysis. The president's latest dumb speech. By Fred Kaplan Posted Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, at 6:23 PM ET Subject: Bush Goes a Bridge Too Far From: GeorgeJMyersJr-2 Date: Sep 3 2006 4:20PM As a wee bairn of a mother née Urquhart (the Scottish officer's surname whom Montgomery addresses in the film "A Bridge Too Far" portrayed by Sean Connery) I enjoyed the idea of introducing "cognitive dissonance" reminding me of the psychology classes I once took at the university in Buffalo, NY, now to have New York State's only law school. Ha ha. I was just watching "XXI Century" a documentary available on the Bitcomet site named after Professor Noam Chomsky. In the speech President Bush made announcing the invasion of Iraq, he stated "All free nations have a stake...(scary death metaphor)...and we're asking them to join us and many are doing so. Yet the course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others." The "yetis" (Saddam and his sons) were given 48 hours to leave Iraq and/or face the invasion. So there's no option there but lots of "cognitive dissonance" in that they're given 48 hours but we're still going in, when perhaps another negotiation could have been made. The 300 mph surplus jet the CIA or someone pointed to, I had been recently researching, they had purchased at a cheap surplus cost ($50,000 or so? and one British aviator who was setting up a dealership in, had an airspace issue with a Russian interceptor, who had trouble staying nearby at that low rate of speed) was a ridiculous threat as were some of the others, e.g., the "dynamite gun" made from oil pipelines, invented at the West Point Foundry and brought back by the Vermont entrepreneur assassinated in Amsterdam, Holland; aluminum tubes; African yellow-cake; and other items that would be laughable in a "Mouse That Roared" except there is the loss of human life involved, the dangerous insects, heat, depleted uranium, and replacement of matériel that is and will be required. Too many bridges too far, over the Tigris and the Euphrates, in my opinion. Source: Slate Magazine (Queue Harry Nilsson and John Lennon singing "Many Rivers To Cross" by Jimmy Cliff(?) from the "Pussy Cats" album 1974 now on CD, and Dr BLT protest song "Neil Young (Have You Forgotten)" c) 2006 by Dr BLT (Bruce Thiessen) or vice versa. How about that mashup, "Beachles: Sgt. Petsound's"? Pretty interesting. There was a "Scientific American" article that compared the two, since they were popular in opposite venues, someone analyzed the chords and vocal accents to see the comparison, here joined together electronically).