The Importance of Talking Points

According to the Bush administration, the following is a list of all the ways in which terrorists come to be “emboldened.”

• Wanting the war to end
• Disagreeing with the President’s war policy
• Protesting the war
• Voting for a non-binding resolution opposed to the announced addition of more troops
  
• Doing anything that in no way involves the voluntary “support” of “the troops.”
• Talking to friends about the war
• Writing about the war on your blog
• Caring enough about the men and women who serve in the military that you don’t want them to die
• Secretly harboring thoughts that Saddam Hussein was executed so incredibly quickly because of his knowledge of American business interests in Iraq and their involvement/complicity in his dictatorial reign
• Rebutting the argument that anyone opposed to the war has to come up with an exit strategy
• Referring to the fighting as a civil war
• Reading the liberal media
• Watching the liberal media
• Going to the liberal movie theatre in the liberal district of your local liberal suburb

Do you see a pattern? Deep within the administration’s plan for constant war is the brilliant tactic of pre-blaming others for the plan’s inevitable failure.

What? The war didn’t fail because of disastrous and incompetent planning? It failed because the enemy watched CNN and became so emboldened that they became invincible. If everybody just blindly agreed with us, then we would’ve won.

See. It’s your fault, America.