I'm hitting myself on the head with a hammer. Give me an exit strategy!

[Inland]

I mean, I can't just stop hitting myself. I need an excuse or some cover to explain that I always meant to hit myself and now have found a reason to discontinue the otherwise honorable and intelligent practice of hammering my own skull.

I need to be able to argue that it was reasonable to believe that a ball peen to my noggin would lead to good things, and that no fewer than a good twenty or so whacks were required for us to reach the surprising conclusion that it wasn't the best idea.

Or I need to be able to declare that the goals of hitting myself have been reached.

If I don't have an exit strategy, I can't stop. My head really hurts. Please help.

[Tweed]

1. Just like Bush's exit plan for Iraq...

Go through your Iran, I mean chest.

[anotherdrew]

2. and you've got to 'save face' don't forget

I know, hit your leg with the hammer instead!

[eleny]

3. The best I can do is a smiley

[tk2kewl]

4. I am sure the hammer is desperate and in the last throes of its hammering

no worries

[Inland]

6. Yes, it's landing harder now......therefore I'm encouraged........

[tk2kewl]

7. LOL

[Richard Steele]

9. ding*ding*ding*, we have a winner!

Here's your PIE:

[tk2kewl]

10. Mmmmmm. Pie.

that is funny. Who would Jesus pie?

[Robbien]

5. Well, I was hoping Bush would just stop talking about it

the media wouldn't call him on it and the subject would have just been dropped. Just as if it never happened and Social Security would live for another day.

This exit strategy is a bit worrisome because it may be they will try to ram some small part of the privatization scheme down our throats and the Dems may give in to it.

[KaliTracy]

8. do you need some ice yet? --- even Cheney knew

there couldn't be an exit strategy... dig these quotes from yesteryear...

Dick Cheney has been quoted more than once against the US going in the Middle East for such a reason. In 1991, he was quoted in the New York Times, on April 13 that

If you're going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?**

and more recently in an interview in 1996
..if Saddam wasn't there, his successor probably wouldn't be notably friendlier to the United States than he is. I also look at that part of the world as of vital interest to the United States; for the next hundred years it's going to be the world's supply of oil. We've got a lot of friends in the region. We're always going to have to be involved there. Maybe it's part of our national character, you know, we like to have these problems nice and neatly wrapped up, put a ribbon around it. You deploy a force, you win the war, and the problem goes away, and it doesn't work that way in the Middle East; it never has and isn't likely to in my lifetime**

**(Quoted Information courtesy of Slate’s “Chatterbox” --- article by Timothy Noah
Posted Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 4:53 PM PT) http://slate.msn.com/id/2072609


the hawk used to be a dove?

[driver8]

11. You must "stay the course...your resolve is strong." n/t