The war comes home

Iraq is now truly liberated and free: it resumed executing people today, three of them.

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco:

“Three hundred of the Arkansas National Guard have landed in the city of New Orleans. These troops are fresh back from Iraq, well trained, experienced, battle tested and under my orders to restore order in the streets. They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.”

See what’s going on here? She’s telling the Guards that the “looters” (who are distinguishable by their skin color) are sub-humans who need to be shot down in the streets like dogs or Iraqis. At the same time she’s telling the residents of New Orleans they’d better behave because the Guards she’s sicced on them are animals, I mean have you seen the things they did in Iraq? and they like to kill (what else does “more than willing” mean?) so don’t fuck with them.

Divide and rule the under-class, the first rule of governance since time immemorial.