Karl Rove and the Bush administration and its GOP supporters have crassly manipulated the Iraq civil war into a line in the sand against al Qaeda, which wasn’t in Iraq before we invaded and conquered it. After wasting hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions in treasury in Iraq, they’ll always have to have another place to go so they can claim the Democrats are “soft on….” for the next election or until they violently overthrow the republic by force of arms, the little treasoners. I say impeach ‘em, toss ‘em in the clink, and throw away the keys….after a fair trial , of course!

The movie starts with a scene in Paris where 4 stereotypical Arab terrorists (speaking gibberish with a few familiar moslem names thrown in), carrying a suitcase described as a WMD. Team America shows up, and in the ensuing fire-fight, they manage (with rocket launchers, air to ground missles, and lots of machin-gun fire, manage to kill the 4 Arabs. In the process they also destroy the Eiffel Tower, the Arc d’Triumph, and the Louvre, then afterward are totally unable to comprehend why the French people are not jumping with joy.

I’ve long since noted the similarities between the Republican party and organized religion. Both stress a rigid hierarchy, wherein as you move up by each layer, there is more freedom and less responsibility or accountability. Each level demands more compliance from the level below it, and at the base level, everyone is held responsible for the decisions of the few.