John McCain: Let's Do The Time Warp Again!

By Big Tent Democrat, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Sat Apr 07, 2007 at 10:26:17 PM EST
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It's astounding, time is fleeting Madness takes its toll, But listen closely, not for very much longer, I've got to keep control I remember doing the TIme Warp, Drinking those moments when, The blackness would hit me and the void would be calling, Let's do the time warp again... Let's do the time warp again!

John McCain is all chutzpah today:

The new political-military strategy is beginning to show results. But most Americans are not aware because much of the media are not reporting it or devote far more attention to car bombs and mortar attacks that reveal little about the strategic direction of the war.

Back to the show:

It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right, With your hands on your hips, You bring your knees in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane, Let's do the Time Warp again!

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And the rest (5.00 / 3) (#1)
by Big Tent Democrat on Sat Apr 07, 2007 at 10:35:02 PM EST

It's so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
So you can't see me, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You're there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on sensation, like you're under sedation
Let's do the Time Warp again!
Well I was walking down the street just a-having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink
He shook me up, he took me by surprise
He had a pickup truck and the devil's eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change
Time meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the Time Warp again!

Don't quit your day job. (none / 0) (#11)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 09:21:53 AM EST

Heh (5.00 / 1) (#13)
by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 09:37:16 AM EST

That is funny.

If I had written that, I could have quit my day job.

You don't recognize it?


: Nope. Never saw the movie... (5.00 / 1) (#23)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 02:08:36 PM EST

Not my generation... although I confess to having heard of the movie..

: Google is my friend--otherwise I would have (none / 0) (#19)
by oculus on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 11:56:38 AM EST

had to ask.

We're caught in the same (none / 0) (#28)
by CA JAY on Mon Apr 09, 2007 at 10:36:13 AM EST

cultural time warp (I was born in the early 1960s.) This Rocky retrospective is almost as good as your Grammar Rock one from two months ago.


Meanwhile, on planet Earth (5.00 / 2) (#2)
by brainwave on Sat Apr 07, 2007 at 11:11:05 PM EST

At least 20 American soldiers were also killed this week.
On Friday, Baghdad's morgue reported a disturbing sign that sectarian violence may again be on the rise in the capital. The number of bodies delivered to the morgue has steadily increased each day this week. The toll on Friday was 72.

: Oh! (5.00 / 2) (#6)
by hhex65 on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 03:43:23 AM EST

don't tell me they're adapting again.

Piised off vet (5.00 / 2) (#14)
by Richard in Jax on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 10:15:42 AM EST

From the Department of Defense:
"Pfc. Daniel A. Fuentes, 19, of Levittown, N.Y., died April 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, of wounds suffered when in improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle."
19 years old. Bush's blueprint for this young man's death was drafted when the boy was only 14 years old. The man that killed him? An unknown Sunni bomb planter, an Iraqi, the person Pvt. Fuentes was fighting for. The only thing that bomb changed was Pvt. Fuentes mother's dreams. No college graduation ceremony, 21st birthday party, or family reunions including Daniel.
The death of Pvt. Fuentes is another ripple in the wake of the `Great Wastrel', G.W. Bush. Tomorrow another kid will die and the day after another. For what? There are only two ways to avoid losing a war: Win it or fight it forever. If your legacy, as Bush's is, is tied to the success of the war you only have those options. Winning it, as we all know, is off the table. So surge on and on. Stay the course. Each Daniel will buy Bush another 12 hours of delaying the inevitable. God, what a monster that man is.
Today is Daniel Fuentes's day. He is dead. God bless him and may he rest his young soul in peace. But who is next? What will the name be and from what part of America?
End this perverted mess right now. Don't let Mr. Bush kill another young American for his worthless legacy. It is OK if Bush fails; in fact it is best for America. Get over it folks and do what is best for us, not that festering aberration, G.W. Bush.
To all the wingers out there huffing and puffing at my calling GW a punk here is my email addy: coralreef54@hotmail.com send me you heroic stuff, but, at the beginning of your note plainly list your combat service to the USA. IF you don't it will not be read. I have no intention of wasting my time with GOP'er Rambo wanna-bes and punk combat avoiders like Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh, the entire FOX crew, Savage (real name Weiner), Beck, Instaputz, the entire crew at Little Green (yellow) Footballs, the entire crew at Poerline (a contraction of 'powerful' and 'line' of all talk and no walk) the College (therefore not military) Republicans, Perle, Ledeen, Wolfowitz, Feith and virtually every GOP troll on the internet. You guys talk too damn much. In fairness, Vietnam 1970 and 1971 are my credentials.
Richard

So... (none / 0) (#3)
by jarober on Sat Apr 07, 2007 at 11:59:14 PM EST

So - in 1945, after the death tolls of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, TL would have called that war a loss. A deeply wounded enemy can still inflict serious damage, and this simple fact is continually lost on the defeatists on the left.

hahahaha (none / 0) (#7)
by squeaky on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 07:04:59 AM EST

We smashed Iraq in a couple weeks back in 2003.

Something you are proud of no doubt. Bush the Smasher. Only took him two weeks. Of course there was no fighting from the other side, because they all dispersed in order to fight for the next four years and counting, but who cares about details.

Oh and I guess you knew that it was about occupation back then, even though that was far from the official word.


Not really (none / 0) (#12)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 09:27:23 AM EST

Actually we smashed what we wanted to smash, but that was far from "smashing Iraq."

Should we have smashed more? With 20-20 hindsight and the historical knowledge of the damage the Left would do the war effort by letting the terrorists know that the Left would make us leave, yes. A lot more.


Walter - You pick'em. (none / 0) (#21)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 02:03:18 PM EST

My choice is all.... everyone who decides to kill the other ones...

Hope that isn't too complicated.


: Kill 'em all ... (none / 0) (#25)
by Sailor on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 04:15:38 PM EST

... and let god sort it out ... what an insightful and original policy.
Of course since we are doing a lot of the killing that would include US troops.
Why does ppj hate Americans?

Uhh ... (none / 0) (#18)
by Sailor on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 11:49:29 AM EST

... they always forget that we were actually attacked in WWII so it was started on lies.

They also always ignore the fact the war is over, this is the occupation.

They also always forget bush saying iraq is a sovereign country and we'd leave when they asked us to.

The great majority of Americans and Iraqis want us out, it's the 29%ers that keep wanting to send other peoples' children to die in a war that they started on lies.


I must have missed this. (none / 0) (#22)
by jimakaPPJ on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 02:05:05 PM EST

If the war is over, when did the terrorist surrender?

And if this was WWII there wouldn't be all these self-defeating demonstrations.


: Jane, you ignorant $lut (none / 0) (#26)
by Sailor on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 04:20:10 PM EST

Yeah, wake up lefties. (none / 0) (#4)
by Che's Lounge on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 03:03:03 AM EST

A deeply wounded enemy can still inflict serious damage, and this simple fact is continually lost on the defeatists on the left.

"We will be greeted as liberators." (you want more?)

A BS lie that is continually lost on the imperialists on the right. Your "simple fact" should never have occurred in the first place, but for the RW's arrogant presumptions. You are in no position to lecture us on war strategy.

Don't Look Behind The Curtain (none / 0) (#8)
by john horse on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 08:14:59 AM EST

re: "The new political-military strategy is beginning to show results. But most Americans are not aware because much of the media are not reporting it or devote far more attention to car bombs and mortar attacks that reveal little about the strategic direction of the war."

Speaking of time warps, dont you get a case of the deja vus when you read McCain's complaint of the press? Prior to the escalation the Right's complaint was that the mainstream media, except Fox of course, was concentrating on the negative instead of on the success of Bush/Rumsfeld's Iraq strategy. Well it turned out that Bush/Rumsfeld's Iraq strategy was wrong. Things were not going well. That is why Bush says the escalation is now necessary. However, according to our friends on the Right, even though they mispoke when they said that things were going well that time you can trust them this time. This time things are going well in Iraq. Senator McCain provided an example of that when he walked to the Iraqi market. Then the press discovered that things were not as McCain claimed. Now McCain says he mispoke about that.

So it comes down to who you believe, Senator McCain/Fox news/George Bush or the rest of the reality based world. If you choose option 1 just remember not to look behind the curtain.

How much progress would it take? (none / 0) (#9)
by Slado on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 09:05:25 AM EST

I seriously wonder if any news would be good enough for the defeatists.

It's as if they would rather be proven right then have the entire mission succeed.

No asnwers about what happens in Iraq when we leave. Simply a constant drumbeat of defeatism.

It's a shame when one political party or movement has invested so much in defeat.

Not that republicans haven't been just as guilty of rosey optimism but I'd prefer that critics of the war err on the side of optimism then defeat.

Pffft (5.00 / 2) (#10)
by Big Tent Democrat on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 09:20:33 AM EST

This is a comment not worthy of substantive response.


I sure hope... (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by Dadler on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 11:34:16 AM EST

...That you've encouraged, pestered, shamed every person of military age in your family to enlist and go fight in Iraq. If not, as I suspect, you are so full of wretched, steaming, hypocritical sh*t it's a wonder you can draw a breath.


Tent was right, but I can't resist (none / 0) (#17)
by Dadler on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 11:42:31 AM EST

Slado wrote,
"...but I'd prefer that critics of the war err on the side of optimism then defeat."

Not so surprisingly, rational people prefer that those RESPONSIBLE for this war err on the side of REALITY.

Your quote is a ringing endorsement of delusion.

And, of course, Japan invaded our nation and others. Iraq has done no such thing. You are not so daft or empty as to fail to comprehend the import of that, or are you?

We have f*cked up beyond all repair, inexcusably so for a supposedly free nation. And when you do that, well, you get nothing but shame and failure, as you should.


: But At Least They Died for An Optimistic Error (none / 0) (#24)
by john horse on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 04:03:49 PM EST

re:"...but I'd prefer that critics of the war err on the side of optimism then defeat."
First of all, when it comes to sending American off to war the question should be whether you've erred, not whether you err on the side of optimism or pessimism. In this regard I would match the record of the critics of the war against Bush and Cheney any day.
I don't think the families of the 3,281 Americans killed in Iraq will take much comfort that Bush erred on the side of optimism. However, since you think otherwise may I suggest that we add this line to their gravestones, "They died for a mistake but at least we erred on the side of optimism."

Actually (none / 0) (#20)
by Che's Lounge on Sun Apr 08, 2007 at 01:24:14 PM EST

it is a success. We have the oil. The rest is all acceptable to the elitist warmakers.

Slado, I will grant you this. There is one bright shining ray of hope in this mess. We have the oil. No one else does. The contracts are being negotiated, the margins calculated, and the estimated profits counted. It is a great time for the oil industry. Currently there is no focused resistance in Iraq. The level of chaos in Iraq, coupled with the instability with Iran, keeps prices nice and high with a very acceptable death count.