Episode Three Hey Hey Ho Ho, Those Dirty Hippies Have Got to Go

We're back after a brief hiatus. We decide to talk about the Iraq war and end up making such a long show that we had to break it up into two parts. Bob and I hope you find our conversation as engaging as we obviously did. The Hippie Killers fully endorse the objectives of the WoT and believe that it's important not to lose sight of our goal during the Hippies' full-court press to discredit the Bush administration for political gain during the 2006 mid-term elections.


Part One
We thank some listeners
Bob is Podcasting ignorant
How the Hippies use Vietnam as a model
Negative bias in Iraq reporting
It's not really the Iraq War anymore, it's the Occupation of Iraq
Hippies are only anti-war because they are anti-Bush
Are combat deaths really worse than the deaths at the hands of a despot?
If a government is a non-Hippie government is an illegitimate government
Hippies doesn't like America to exercise its power
Hippies are not ideological when they pick political leaders
The terrorists are not guerillas
Mark defends the Clinton administration for treating terrorism as a criminal matter
Hippies are never going to quit until America is Socialist
Bob posits a connection between Libertarian isolationism and Hippie pacifism
We finally get back on topic, successes in Iraq and how the media mis-report them
The insurgency is not a popular movement
Bob clarifies what battalion readiness, as it applies to the Iraqi forces, means
Mark has an interesting hypothesis about the biased Iraq reporting
An exit strategy operates from the assumption of surrender
Michael Goldfarb on Politics of Culture talking about the American failures in Iraq
Whenever an empire collapses, in this instance the USSR, there is a reorganization of geopolitics
Mark destroys the idea that it was a mistake to disband the Iraqi Army Regulars
Mark goes off on Hippie intellectual conceit
Appeasement is always the answer when Hippies are confronted by agressors


Part two
No conflict is like the preceding conflict
Mark thinks that the Hippies really didn't stop the Vietnam War but Bob convinces him that they did

Is an insurgency primarily composed of foreign nationals really an insurgency?
American forces had to deal with the Werewolves in defeated German, should we have declared WWII unwinnable?
Fortress America, no Battlefield America
If the Iraqis pick another leader like Saddam we'll kick him out too
There's never been a war between two free countries
Hardcore Hippies are even whackier because of their marginalization
Bob explains why the military as a whole is primarily staffed with minorities, but the combat arms are more reflective, demographically, of America
Mark is a patriot
al-Zarqawi is no Ho Chi Mihn
Did the French Resistance blow up French schools and hospitals in their fight against the NAZIS?
Final thoughts



Other links of interest

Hillary Clinton against an immediate pullout in Iraq
John Coles' post on the Murtha resolution
Oxblog's take on the Murtha resolution

For some of the successes in Iraq reconstruction click here
Bob's stats on the Iraq military status come from here