A new frame: Iraq is a "RECREATIONAL WAR"

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

"elective war"... "war of choice"... All accurate but mushy weasel words.

How about we start calling it a "recreational war". An entertaining diversion from the real problems of the country. A PlayStation war started by a weak frat boy to boost his masculinity.

Add your analogies here....

[bahrbearian]

1. Cake Walk or Slam Dunk

[salin]

2. Can't do that one - while true for bushco and neocon planners

it is exceptionally offensive to those who have been sent and have been killed or wounded or are currently at risk of being killed or wounded - it isn't recreational to them.

Would rather "Bush's Folly." Keeps the focus on bush and how he viewed sending troops to wage war in an almost frivolous manner.

[Eloriel]

3. I agree. It's offensive even to me, and I don't fit in any of those

categories.

Nothing' recreational about it for those who are negatively affected by it.

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

4. OK, point taken

But how about Bush's Recreational War?

One problem I have is that the slogans that most appeal to me about those evil bastards are inflammatory. Things which won't appeal to Middle America, an area I know nothing about. Good thing I'm not in advertising! B-)

[Hidden Stillness]

5. A Serious Thing: "..And You Can't Make Me!"

I would emphasize Bush's by-now-familiar, comical "rich boy" selfishness and temper tantrums: Contrast Iraq, a totally mindless endeavor, with the original response to the Sept. 11th attacks and war with Afghanistan.

The First War was a Response to the Attacks Against Us, and an Attempt to Find and Bring to Justice the Perpetrators. It was a Common Cause, Supported by All Americans.
The Second War, Against Iraq, No One Knows the Meaning of, the Reason for, and How We Will Know When We Have "Achieved" the End. We Lost the First War, to Unite With the Civilized World Against Brutality and Terrorism, Because George Bush is More Selfish Than American. Was it for Oil, Was it to Attack a Dictator who had Threatened "Daddy," Was it "Because I'm Rich, and I Can," Playing a Neo-Con Game of (Self-)Delusion With Other Neo-Cons, of "Rich Boy Takes It All."

Emphasize the difference between the American people's common resolve and common, coherent, goal, when it was Afghanistan, and now Bush's isolated, muddled, delusional selfishness with Iraq. Make the point that Bush and all of the other top neo-cons are all rich boy capitalist draft-dodgers, who do not actually want "to fight" themselves, "like the little people do," but only have the "fun" (and real, historical-like importance!) of "directing like a real General" one war after another, until each one gets boring by not being quick wins, and so therefore....