It's interesting, I think, because it exposes another major miscalculation by Bush's handlers. They seem to have assumed that their base would accept any "democratic" Iraqi state that incorporated their values - repression of women, state religion, etc. Fortunately, they appear to have miscalculated. A lot of their base seems to have bought into the idea that they went into Iraq to set up a "Christian" hyper-corporatist free market state. The current - entirely predictable - state of affairs is not going over well with them at all.

"Attack!" has been their mode of operation.  Now, the attacks are backfiring (Cindy Sheehan isn't sinking the way Kerry and his swift boat did) and they don't know what to do.  Rush and Bill, for example, both have had to back-peddle recently, trying to change what they said about Sheehan.  The reactions to their comments, even from their conservative audience, were rather negative.

I'm not sure who I have less respect for, those who are bailing out or those who are trying to keep on flying.  By bailing out, the jumpers are showing that they knew, deep down, that this was all nonsense--that they were along because they thought it would be a good ride.  Hacks.  Those who are staying on the plane, are they so stupid that they can't see they are about to crash into an immovable mountain of public opinion that ain't taking it anymore?

An apt metaphor comes to mind: Bushco have found themselves riding the tiger. So they've got the choice between holding on for dear life - which is rapidly becoming impossible - or get eaten.

Good stuff, check out the site if you've not seen it.

Peace

the revolution will not be televised...

Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), who received two Purple Hearts and other military honors for his service in Vietnam said "stay the course" is not a policy. "By any standard, when you analyze 2 1/2 years in Iraq ... we're not winning," he said.
"We're past that stage now because now we are locked into a bogged-down problem not unsimilar, dissimilar to where we were in Vietnam," Hagel said. "The longer we stay, the more problems we're going to have."

Another Kool-aide drinker reiterates that he's not thirsty anymore.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I can't wait till the liberal pundits do the same.

(a lil' Kenny Rogers take on "Just Dropped in, to see what Condition my Condition was in"

"what a wonderful world"- Louis Armstrong

I can only hope that the emerging shift in opinion about this war translates into a complete repudiation of the criminal and traitorous liars who orchestrated  it in the first place. It would be helpful on this score if the so-called Democratic leadership had something to say, but their political cowardice remains a firm obstacle to their ability to speak to principle and truth.

A pox on them all!

Denial is our most dangerous adversary.

Sinking?

Bush Ship Sinking

Tables turned

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CNN's "Dead Wrong" was good tonight. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and Tenet will go down in history as the people who stole the United States good name and used it for stupid mindless imperialism. I think Powell knowing the intel was shaky didn't show any backbone either.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt