Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 05, 2010

Won’t you give me three steps, Gimme three steps mister, Gimme three steps towards the door? Gimme three steps Gimme three steps mister, And you’ll never see me no more.

Lynyrd Skynyrd

The Red Rascal could probably solve this in a flash … but will probably make a big drama deal out of it instead.

War is like chess. Tell your opponent of your moves in advance. We will leave on such and such a date.

Don’t you just hate it when your trusted allies won’t stay bought?

A real No Win-No Win situation. Leave while you’re still alive and let history sort out the rest.

Make it six minutes, we guard your poppy fields for you!

For old time’s sake, how’s about TEN minutes?

Just pinch your self and wake up. Always works for me.

oh your Ray-Bans will not get you into Heaven any more… they’re already overcrowded with your rotten little war…and Jesus don’t like killing, no matter what the reason’s for… and your Ray-Bans will not get you into Heaven any more….

(with apologies to John Prine)

“hot dog bun, my sister’s a nun.”

You can’t “hire” Afghans – You can only “rent” them. Those people aren’t worth the sweat off my butt.

Akbar is one of the “honest” Afghan tribal leaders fed up with Karzai’s CIA-backed corruption. See Dexter Filkins’ timely piece in the NYT exposing Obama’s policy dilemma:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/weekinreview/05filkins.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Babka: I DO like John Prine…

Me too. Saw him open for Waylon Jennings a few years back.

Wouldn’t it be something if the Red Rascal was to come to his rescue? I mean, the sheer irony of it all…

By the way…Have we met Jeff’s replacement?

Yeah right. The only good war is one that’s started on lies and paid for with off-the-budget funds.

Yeah those WMD. Bush should have known they were used up gassing Kurds and Iranians. Tell the widows and orphans that was another Bush lie. Nope, no WMD

Not only do I have to sign in to make a comment, I also have to sign in if I want to flag spam. Curses! I spent a goodly amount of time flagging them yesterday, and here they are again!

I just stay signed-in; and also just flagged the spammer. Take the Boulder Pledge, NEVER do business with spammers.

Spammerflaggen!

“Switched sides,” eh? Working for whoever will offer more (or threaten less) than your current boss?

Sounds a lot like how we did business in America during that booming economy we had 15 or so years ago… shoot, it was an embarrassment to admit to working for one guy for over two years.

(Sigh!) Looks like the Afghanis are not so different, after all!