The Rich, their Republican Drones and Conservative Chicken Hawks want a New War in Iraq

"Tragically, all we’ve fought for in Iraq, all that 4,500 American lives were shed to gain, is on the cusp, potentially, of vanishing." - Mitt Romney 6/13/2014

                                         
The Big Loser Romney likes to talk all about War and Sacrifice but, those are for other Americans. Profiting off of the Iraq War that's what Romney and his ilk know.

Via Crooks and Liars comes a demand for More War in Iraq by Tyler Cowan, Chairman and General Director of the Koch-financed Mercatus Center, in order that the Koch Brothers and other Plutocrats may profit.

An additional explanation of slow growth is now receiving attention, however. It is the persistence and expectation of peace.

The world just hasn’t had that much warfare lately, at least not by historical standards. Some of the recent headlines about Iraq or South Sudan make our world sound like a very bloody place, but today’s casualties pale in light of the tens of millions of people killed in the two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Even the Vietnam War had many more deaths than any recent war involving an affluent country.

Counterintuitive though it may sound, the greater peacefulness of the world may make the attainment of higher rates of economic growth less urgent and thus less likely. Rather, the very possibility of war focuses the attention of governments on getting some basic decisions right — whether investing in science or simply liberalizing the economy. Such focus ends up improving a nation’s longer-run prospects.

War is the Health of the State, especially when the Rich run the Government and profit mightily when the Poor are sent of to die. As Cowan points out it's just the poor dying so he doesn't care.

So, Mitt Romney continued at his at his Utah gathering, "I lost the election, but I will continue to fight." Now you have to understand that when Romney talks about fighting he doesn't mean himself or his sons. It means other, less Rich Americans.

• Mitt protested in favor of the War in Vietnam and the Draft, "served" Overseas in Paris, France instead of French Indochina. 

His five sons obviously inherited Romney's tough guy, We like to Talk the Talk but, we won't Walk the Walk,

"You know, I, ah, wanted to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him. But you know you can’t do that because, well, first there’s a lot of secret service agents between you and him…" - Tagg Romney, talked about wanting to Punch the President at the second debate in 2012.

Listening to the Romney's is like watching a beer muscle guy at the bar tell his friends to hold him back. He isn't going to fight but he sure wants to appear tough and strong! Tagg is a chicken hawk coward. Just like his father before him and just like his younger brothers,

• Combined Days of Military Service for Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben, and Craig Romney = 0

The 5 Romney "Boys" were born between 1970 and 1981. When their father is added in they have a combined total of Zero Days of Military Service. When asked in 2008 why his sons weren't serving in the military, Mitt stated his dandified sons were too important,

"One of the ways my sons are showing support for this nation is by trying to get me elected. Because they think I'll make a great President." 

Republicans and Conservatives are by and large Chicken Hawks. They will gladly pontificate about the necessity of War while seated on their expansive posteriors, but when it comes to taking the Oath and putting their ass in Danger? Well that's for other people.

Chris Matthews: "Would you like to enlist in this war [Iraq]?"
Jason Mattera: "No."
Matthews: "What kind of people should fight in this war, if not you?"
Mattera: "Those who want to."

See, as Mattera explains in the above linked video, the modern young conservatives are, "Fighting the War for Ideas". The Idea being that other Americans need to die to advance the Right-Wing Agenda of Oppression and Domination by the Rich.

But, it's clear why right-wingers are pushing for a new Iraq War. They will again make Big Money off of Death and Destruction.

George W(orst POTUS Ever) Bush used the Iraq War to funnel Trillions of dollars into the Bank Accounts of the Plutocracy, the super rich and Corporations. His base as he called them. It's another part of the Monstrous Crimes Bush perpetrated which we've lost sight of in recent years and which the American people need to be reminded about. W(orst POTUS Ever), his Republican Guard Dogs, right-wing drones and conservative chicken hawks engaged in a War Crime similar to the Genocide of Native Americans.

Now, President Obama has deployed 170 forces into Baghdad to support the US Embassy, in the old Green Zone. There are an additional 100 waiting in reserve. And apparently there was discussion of inserting Special Forces Operators into the New Iraqi Army to provide support and bolster their flagging morale. Sadly, this has the smell of advisors all over it.

Of course, I'm glad he did it before Republicans Benghazi'ed the President again. For you see Republicans have this nasty habit of undermining the Troops and underfunding security for Agencies and then blaming the President for their despicable misdeeds.

Nonetheless, all across the Conservative Sunday Morning Talk circuit, the Old Architects of the Iraq Debacle were trotted out yet again. Yet again we must watch as the Republican Party Drones and their Conservative Chicken Hawks are allowed to lie about Iraq.

Straw Men and Straw Polls. Empty Chairs and True the Polls.

"[A]s a conservative, I've long believed and long felt that there is inherit media bias." Paul Ryan, granny-killing career bureaucrat, chicken hawk coward.

"If there's nothing wrong with me... maybe something's wrong with the Universe!" - Doctor Beverly Crusher, Star Trek:The Next Generation

 Emptiness is the core of the Right. They are reduced to attacking Empty Chairs. And while conservatives, the eternal victims, have long whined about the Liberal Media they now have to worry about the Polls.

Every Poll shows President Obama pulling away and building a sizeable lead as Barack steadily streaks towards re-election. Paul Ryan has begun to notice The Stench of Defeat around Mitt Romney.

Romney is going to lose. Conservatives can not understand why? They've spent thousands of hours, using every medium available to them (blogs, facebook, radio, and Faux News) to insult , smear and lie about President Obama. How could their efforts have failed?

Perhaps, it's never occured to the Right that running a cowardly chicken hawk, plutocratic vulture capitalist, who intends to raise taxes on the poor and middle class while he lowers his own might not work outside their own insular cocoon of Obama is Hitler hatred.

Now faced with the rejection of their slanders, as Americans recoil at the ugliness of the emptiness of the conservative soul, Right-Wingers retreat to safe ground. They make up the facts to fit their beliefs. It's up to Right-Wingers to True The Polls!

Thus, faced with the polling data, Conservatives simply dismiss it and invent their own polls. And surprise "Unskwered Polls" show Romney winning! Check it out. As of 10/02, according to Unskewering of Reuters, Romney is up by 10 Points!

It's what they've done the entire Obama Presidency. Anything which does not cavort to the Alternate Conservative Reality is axiomatically liberal and can be dismissed. If Americans don't understand Obama's Evil Machinations, then lying is justified.  

A volunteer for the Republican Party of Clay County in Florida left an answering machine message filled with many of the empty strawman lies the Right holds.                              

“You don’t want Obama! You really don’t want Obama, because he’ll get rid of your Medicare. You might as well say goodbye to it… I don’t know if you’ve done any research on Obama or not, but he is a Muslim. He's got a socialistic view on the, you know, economy, the government, the whole nine yards. If he had his way we would be a socialistic country. Really do pay attention to Fox News, if you can get out and watch that movie 2016 that has a lot of good information. Just really read the newspapers and Fox News will help you out.”

 Lying and just making things up aren't a defect of conservative thinking it's a feature.