tough guys packing heat

Why did you think invading Iraq had anything to do with 9-11?  Was your theory that those guys all look alike?  Neocons were guys who were relatively liberal on social issues but were crazed hawks when it came to the middle east.  Their theory was that they would ride into Baghdad under a snow of rose petals, the Iraqis would pay the costs of our invasion out of oil money, then under our guidance they would become a democracy, their neighbors, seeing how groovy democracy is, would become democracies themselves, and being democracies they would be nice to Israel.  With all that deep thinking how could anything go wrong?

They kind of kept this a little under wraps while they were talking the simpleton into it, and suspecting that the American people would maybe think their theories unrealistic, they made up the whole weapons of mass destruction thing because fear trumps logic.  My dems were no heroes in this, including the big girl, almost nobody wants to be on the peace side of a country going to war. 

When things started to go a cropper, people who should have given the whole project a bigger fish eye in the beginning, began to examine it, and the neocons were in a brighter light.  Eventually the usage of neocon was broadened to include anybody who was for the war, and that's probably why the guy on the internet called you a neocon.

I've known a few Jews too, and a few Muslims, and a few Christians, and atheists, and Irish, and Pollacks, and some of them have been swell guys and some of them have been big fucking assholes.  You don't judge a country by the people you meet living in the USA, nor by the people who live there either, who are all probably nice enough guys, except for the ones who aren't.  You judge it by its current government.  The Germans were terrible when they were Nazis, swell guys when they were our bulwark against the commies, and lately they seem to be ok, but I have to tell you they make me a little nervous.

That whole thing about the British and the UN and partition is all dressed up in legalities but it was basically a battle of force and the Israelis won.  I agree that the Israelis live in a tough neighborhood, and that the Palestinians aren't the easiest people to deal with, but, without going into a lot of detail on it, I think they give their local Palestinians too much of an iron fist.  And they influence our foreign policy way too strongly to whatever their leader wants at the time.  And this is after taking way more money from us than any other country gets.

What I am saying is people coming out of a gun store and asked a question by a reporter are probably just saying whatever to advance whatever agenda they have.  Every time CTA rates go up they interview people on the street who say that they are never going to ride the CTA again, and yet ridership does not drop.

People who were too young to buy a gun before are buying their first gun.  Otherwise people who haven't owned guns before are probably not going to buy them now because why?  What has changed?  You are aware that crime is way down aren't you?

Okay women, probably some women are buying their first guns, probably because now we have concealed carry and there are so many cute new holsters.

I was watching the debates last night of course, even the kiddie table debates that your man Rand turned his nose up at, and there was the Huck going out of his way to mention the last time he was at the gun shop loading up on iron.  Well, hell all the rep candidates do that, they every last one of them have a gun for each hand and foot and tongue and whatever, and for the front room and the bedroom and the kitchen and the bathroom because you never know where you are going to be when the need to shoot somebody is going to come up.

And I was thinking what the fuck does the Huck need a gun for?  Does he have the midnight shift at the Seven Eleven?  Does he haunt seedy neighborhoods in search of illicit pleasures?  We were talking about tough guys maybe a week ago, and i think it is exactly that.  If you asked the Huck if he was planning on shooting somebody, he'd probably give you this long and rambling folksy explanation with a few references to the good lord, and in the end he would not have said no.  And if it so happened that the need arrived, you can just see him blowing the smoke from the barrel with a Clint Eastwood squint.  Because he is a tough guy too.