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THE WORST Icon of the Year — General David Howell Petraeus
General David Howell Petraeus Gen. David Petraeus is the Lone Star Iconoclast’s Icon of the Year. The current Commanding General of the Multi-National Force in Iraq, purely a euphemism for “invading army,” is the recipient of this dishonor for one big reason: He is carrying out a temporary yet successful military strategy that has given American fascism new life in a war that it cannot possibly win. The so-called “surge” of U.S. troops to strengthen the occupation of Baghdad has clearly propped the puppet government in a Middle Eastern country we, and they, continue to loot. This strategy furthers the creation of a monster that may rival the one the United States fostered in Europe after World War I. At the same time, the U.S. government is oppressing two ethnic minorities while allowing another nation to cream the third in Iraq. By letting Turkey bludgeon the Kurds, the U.S. is limiting Kurdistan’s choices to accept the will of Iraq’s corrupt Shia government. The Turks will kill the Kurds with no second thoughts. Indeed, another Armenian-style desolation is in the works under the Petraeus Doctrine. The Bush administration knows this and acts according to its own brand of corporatism. Since his confirmation in January 2007, Gen. Petraus has gleefully led this charge. Petraeus’ report in September failed to tell the whole truth about Iraq to the American people It failed to explain the extent of the Sunni militias infiltrating the Iraqi Security Forces. It failed to explain why the greatest drop in “ethno-sectarian” deaths occurred before the surge began. It failed to explain why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were still leaving their homes for safety’s sake. It failed to explain whether the salaries of the 445,000 people on security forces’ payroll go into the pockets of ministry officials. There is speculation that Petraeus will use this experience to launch a career in politics, the target being the Oval Office. His refusal to support a timetable for troop withdrawal fuels this speculation continued through the year. Petraeus may have written the Army’s counterinsurgency manual, but that means nothing when it is used against every Iraqi
THE BEST Iconoclast of the Year — Albert Arnold ‘Al’ Gore, Jr.
Albert Arnold ‘Al’ Gore, Jr.
Al Gore is the Lone Star Iconoclast’s Iconoclast of the Year.
His accomplishments in 2007 showed us what the world already knew.
We should have picked him as our president in 2000.
Oh, wait, I forgot we did pick him to be our president!
Well, it just proves once again that the decision to crown George W. Bush was the Supreme Court’s lowest point of all time.
Instead of electing a true American Statesmen, we elected a political stooge, the worst president in American history at least since James Buchanan.
Gore ranks up there with President James Monroe.
Not since Gen. George C. Marshall has there even been such a class act.
Burned by election defeat, Vice President Gore rose from the ashes, took inventory, and resumed his lifelong role as an environmental activist.
The Tennessean traveled the world with a laptop computer, delivering a simple warning to the populous:
Global warming is here. We’ve got a moral duty to stop it for the sake of future generations! We can stop it!
His PowerPoint presentations were captured on the silver screen in the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
The film’s commercial success brought global warming to audiences like no other campaign had.
Not even Hollywood could ignore its impact, so it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary this year.
Then months later, Gore achieved what only three U.S. presidents could, the Nobel Peace Prize.
He shared the honor with the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.”
Indeed, Gore is empowering us to combat global warming.
It’s the little things we do in our private lives that have the greatest effect on this earth.
Change fluorescent light bulbs.
Car pool.
Eat out less.
Hell, walk more!
These little acts accumulate as we go.
The earth is in human hands.
Thank you, Mr. Gore, for leading the way.
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