Last night on a re-run of Real Time with Bill Maher, he said this, "" ...I agree with that very much - but on a practical level, what I'm saying here is that the lesson of Vietnam, to me, was that once it went bad, it's not going to get better - like a relationship."
Although he finished the statement as a joke, he had what I thought was a very powerful concept of how we should end the US occupation of Iraq. He said that like a school project, if you are given three weeks to do a project, you'll take three weeks. If you are given one year to do something, you will take one year. The people we are fighting - Iraqi citizens - in Iraq aren't there just to fight us. They are there to protect their rights and what they view as their society. If it takes 100 years to get rid of the US's ideology for freedom, they will stay the course.
His opinion, which I have to agree with, is that we have been in Iraq for 1-1/2 years. Let's tell the Iraqis we will be there one more year. If by then, they haven't embraced "our" democracy, they never will.
Now, for Bill's funniest "New Rule" of the night:
New Rule: No puppet fucking. The "South Park" guys have a new movie called "Team America," which features graphic sex scenes between marionettes. Hey, you know what? If I had any interest in wooden sex with strings attached, I'd get married.
I laughed so hard, I barely made it to the potty. Maybe I should consider Granny-diapers when his show is on.
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