Evil.

You want to see evil? Here it is

Teenagers looking to have fun at Six Flags are being shown the 'thrills' of shooting up ' a genocidal Indigenous force'

"Listen up, soldiers!" shouts Josh Hernandez, a Green Beret with a shaven head, square jaw and T-shirt that defines every muscle rippling beneath it. "Your mission is to deliver supplies to a humanitarian aid force inside hostile territory. But a genocidal indigenous force will try to stop you!

If that does not get your adrenaline going, you get to fire a 'realistic' M-4 carbine assault rifles with pneumatic recoil so they feel like real guns when fired.

the really evil part of all this?

When the bad guys die, they fall bloodlessly and disappear. They keep coming —- standing atop silos, pouring from buildings.

Every person that pops up is a bad guy. And they disappear bloodlessly. No innocent civilians here. No 13-year old gets raped. No innocent family gets shot up.

Everybody is a villain and we are the only heroes.

"Mission Accomplished" read all the monitors. Game over.

"(14 year old)Bentley also said the Virtual Army Experience gave him a good impression of combat. "After seeing this, I really do think I could join the Army one year. I think I'd be good at it. But I'm good at astronomy, too, and that seems a little safer."

Digby is delusional

In back , to back posts, Digby get to the bottom of how this election is going to play out, but I think she is being way too optimistic about the outcome.

In response to Margaret Carlson

He may be as delusional as Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, but with his military bearing, his seriousness, his white hair, his war wounds, his straight talk, he doesn't seem so.

Just as independents and Democrats project onto McCain a liberalism that isn't there, they may believe he will be like Richard Nixon going to China -- the hawk who can safely bring the troops home without having to say we're sorry we ever went there.

Digby sez

I simply can't believe that John McCain is seen as some kind of happy warrior and that the country has even the slightest notion of what "winning" in Iraq means other than that we are no longer bankrupting the country to keeps troops over there for no good reason.

What is Digby smoking? Of course the country believes that victory in Iraq is possible, necessary and will happen in due course and everyone will get a pony. I have learned not to be surprised by the amount of delusion that the good citizens of our country are capable of.

President Codpiece still has an approval rating that is in the 30s. While he has been very successfully hidden from the campaign trail, while he has been booed at baseball games,

he. still. is. approved. by. more. than. a. quarter.of.the.american.public.

McCain is still seen as the serious warrior, despite the fact that he has repeatedly bungled even the most basic facts about Iraq, Iran, Sunni, Sh'ia. Colin Powell still gets fawning interviews on television (he was on CNN yesterday) while being one of the 'principals' who specifically authorized torture.

In a rational world, in Digby's world, there would already be war crimes tribunals.

This is most certainly not Digby's world and Dick Morris gets it totally right

So it is with Iraq: He who proposes an alternative is doomed. McCain’s position, that we have to stay until we win, is far from popular, but it’s a lot better than unilateral and immediate withdrawal.

Watch while this line takes hold and Obama gets defeated in November.