Daily Kos: Iraq: Place Your Bets. This is Disgusting.

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Daily Kos: Iraq: Place Your Bets. This is Disgusting.

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Daily Kos

Iraq: Place Your Bets. This is Disgusting.

 

 

August 20, 2005

 

Against my better judgment, I spent some time in foreign territory

this evening. Enticed by The Political Teen's What's the Problem with

Intelligent Design?, I bravely entered a rightwing blog.

 

Things were going quite well. Turns out, I wasn't the lone voice from

the left. In a tag-team fashion, we answered the blogger's query.

Overcome with a sense of blather ennui, I glanced to the side to see

if the ads on the darkside look like the stuff we have.

 

For the most part, it's just like our stuff - but opposite.

 

* I love Bush * Eighty more years * Only 20 shopping days 'til 9/11 *

Terror Terror Terror Vote Republican or You May Die * Gas Masks Half

Price * Republican Sized Penis? Get as big as a Democrat, Guaranteed.

 

OK. I made those up. The rest are real. First, I spotted an ad that

lets you choose who you think (not real thought - the rightwing you've

been told what to think) is the biggest liberal. There were three

choices: Ted Kennedy, Hillary, and our own Markos! Obviously, Ted

Kennedy, right? He must be at least 250 pounds.

 

Then I saw it, and it was stunned:

 

BetOnIraq.com

 

Because liberty breeds prosperity.

 

Iraq's chances of thriving are much better than most of the media

would have us believe. The New Iraqi Dinar is unbelievably affordable.

The same amount that was once equal to over $82,000 can now be

purchased for around $45. But, what happens when the oil really starts

to flow?

 

You say a free Iraq could thrive?

Put their money where your mouth is.

 

 

 

 

Here's part of the pitch:

The free world is behind Iraq.

Thirty-eight nations have reduced the debts owed to them in an effort

to bolster Iraq's economy. Billions of dollars are being invested by

international firms to create Iraqi markets. 18 billion dollars has

been given to Iraq by the US State Department to rebuild the nation's

infrastructure. They are receiving aid monetarily, militarily or

both, from most of the countries in the free world.

 

Sounds like a deal! Get your share of Iraqi aid!

Let's say you decide to err on the side of Iraqi prosperity. You take

advantage of the 100 year low value and buy 2 million Iraqi dinars....

A few years from now, you see a program on A & E portraying the lives of

average Iraqis. You see people drinking locally bottled, genuine Pepsi

Cola; not the ersatz they'd been consuming for years. They are buying

their cars from Baghdad Mitsubishi.

You'll know your investment has paid off by watching basic cable?

Organizations like Operation Iraqi Children working with the US

military, are helping to shape a new generation of freedom loving

Iraqis. It won't be long before these kids take their place in

society. They will recall their childhood as the time when powerful

Americans released them from the grip of a bloodthirsty madman...

picture of muslim girl waving the US flag

 

Amazing. I did not know it was possible to cry AND vomit at the same time!

 

We are freedom loving Americans that believe a liberated, resource

rich Iraq can become a force in the world economy. We believe the

efforts of the coalition are noble, and will be effective.

We are not professional financial consultants or Wall Street gurus. We

can't predict the future or offer any investment advice.

 

But we will bet on Iraq.

So, you don't have a job but you may have a wicked gambling habit. You

sound like the kind of guys that would benefit from a little military

discipline. Of course, if you're white male Republicans then your role

is to believe in the effort. If only you guys grew up poorer, with few

options but military service.

 

Praise God for Fox News and their dedication to bring the liberation

right into your livingroom. It's just like Sunday football and they're

waiting for your wagers!

 

George Bush has already bet $300 billion. Maybe there's an RNC office

pool. This could explain their wildly insane optimism -- it's just

plain ole team spirit -- and there's more riding on this war than we

ever knew.

 

My tone is glib, but I honestly don't know how to react to this

blatant callousness. Not only is this a scam that feeds on the

uber-patriot, but does so with a lack of compassion for people who

have suffered there and here. People like Cindy Sheehan, who was put

through hell because her cause attracted real and imaginary allies.

 

Their rules now apply: guilt shall be assessed by association. The

bloggers and commentators who have allowed advertisers like

http://betoniraq.com to feed from the misery of a war that has claimed

1,800 American and countless other lives are without shame.

 

We are at the end of a week that saw an unprecedented demonization of

the once sacred mother-child bond. On national television, I heard

news that yet another tragedy in Cindy Sheehan's life would end her

vigil. News alert finished, the first words uttered in regular

programming indicate just how low they can go: " Cindy Sheehan is

pathetic. "

 

A word to any Republicans who read through this diary without

dismissing it as typical left-wing bullshit: You need to rescue

yourselves. The people who respresent you in office and in the media

are revolting sociopaths. There is no other way to describe people who

can dish out cruelty for entertainment, look for the cash cows in a

deadly war, and blissfully ingore emotions and clear evidence that a

change is needed.

 

Are you proud of what you have seen. Do you find this type of

advertising acceptable?

 

How do you change the hearts of the souless? It seems the right has

passed a threshold of decency that cannot be ingored. By any code, one

of god or not, we are witness to moral bankruptcy on a wholesale level.

 

Please, help spread the word about this kind of advertising. Make the

right face their own demons for a change.

 

 

 

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