How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Perpetual War: Newt Preps Us

[ignatzmouse]

Straight from the pages of "1984" and the Leo Strauss playbook, get ready for perpetual war! These guys are so arrogant in their power that they'll even occasionally let the rest of us in on their plans. Rather than being accountable for the deceptions and exceptionally misguided and inept strategy that re-routed our direct response from Al-Qaida and bin Laden to Iraq, they simply plow ahead with a further diversion into their self-fulfilling agenda. It's now a perpetual war with Islam.

The Saturday, August 20th, 2005 Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes GOP strategist and Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a Friday speech to the National Press Club as proclaiming the U.S. to be in the opening stages of a 50 to 70 year war.

"The sheer reality of the long war -- I call it 'long war' deliberately -- we're going to be fighting the irreconcilable wing of Islam for at least 50 to 70 years... That war is dangerous to us because it's not about an occasional car bomb, it's not about an occasional sniper; it's about the absolute danger that sooner or later they will get chemical or nuclear weapons or biological weapons and then all your freedoms will be at risk..."

Addressing the detainees a Guantanamo Bay, Gingrich said they may have to remain "locked up for their entire lifetime these are people who have said that as a matter of religious faith, they intend to kill us."

Other comments by the Gingrich include a deflectingly masterful bit of double-talk that leaks a bit of GOP strategy for 2006. The goal, poll what the public most dislikes about us and then get the jump on our opponents by charging them with the issue first. Thus saith the Gingrich, Americans are "tired of the negatives, they are tired of the attacks, they are tired of the traditional debates, they are tired of all the baloney by which consultants look at focus groups to get 40 seconds to be memorized so candidates can pretend they're actually answering."

All DU'ers are granted one complimentary spit-take.

[wli]

1. Newt blaming Islam for false flag attacks and revoking the Bill of Rights?

Well, RICO and 18 USC 794 vs. the AEI should have him answering a number of questions about these affairs.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Is this on line yet?

Please provide a link when one becomes available!

Thanks,

--p!

[ignatzmouse]

4. Link Available Here

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/news_3460cdda652a509e1060.html

Sorry, I didn't find it on-line at first.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Thanks!

Newt is an interesting guy.

While I disagree with him on just about everything, he's good at letting nasty little details slip out that really tell the story -- as with his memo about using words as political weapons.

Excellent nickname, BTW. Once upon a time, I surfed the BBSes under the handle of "Ignatz" (among others).

--p!

[ignatzmouse]

6. Krazy

Ignatz Mouse is of course Krazy Kat's foil from the old George Herriman strip. He'd knock some sense into the Kat with a well-timed brick. It seemed a good analogy to me for internet salvos. That, and the brilliant wackiness of Herriman's writing really caught me. I've seen a couple of other Ignatius's out there. It's good to keep the spirit of Kat and Mouse alive.

[Dogmudgeon]

7. Ignatz' and Krazy Kat's neighbors, Archy and Mehitabel

I loved the romantic triangle of Ignatz, Krazy, and Ofissa Pup when I was a kid, and even had some of the Krazy Kat comics that have always seem to have been in print. Later in life, I discovered Archy and Mehitabel, and I thereafter thought one of the pairs was copied from the other. Archy and Mehitabel was a poetic series of comic stories by Don Marquis (also at this website), although there wasn't any brick-throwing. Archy was a roach, not a mouse, and Mehitabel was a cat. There was no character like Offisa Pup involved at all.

It turns out that Archy and Mehitabel and Ignatz and Krazy Kat actually did parallel each other. Herriman illustrated the original Archy and Mehitabel books, while Ignatz and Krazy Kat preceded Archy and Mehitabel and were from an older series of comics called The Dingbat Family. There appears to have been at least some cross-inspiration between the two projects, and both Marquis and Herriman are rightly known as geniuses in their particular bailiwicks of "lit-rich-ah".

There were also several projects that brought Archy and Mehitabel to the stage and screen. One of Mel Brooks' first major projects was his writing for Shinbone Alley, which ran on Broadway during theater season in 1957.

Archy was a poet and epigrammatist, and here are a few pearls of his cockroachly wisdom:

live so that you
can stick out your tongue
at the insurance
doctor

procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday

old doc einstein has
abolished time but they
haven t got the news at
sing sing yet

don t cuss the climate
it probably doesn t like you
any better
than you like it

prohibition makes you
want to cry
into your beer and
denies you the beer
to cry into

i once heard the survivors
of a colony of ants
that had been partially
obliterated by a cow s foot
seriously debating
the intention of the gods
towards their civilization

the bees got their
governmental system settled
millions of years ago
but the human race is still
groping

Not bad for a cockroach, huh?

--p!

[whistle]

3. Newt Gingrich uses one other playbook in his relentless...

...application of propaganda: