It IS hard to believe that someone posing as "President" could be as incompetent and dishonest as Bush is, and our love of country makes us want to trust that our leaders have our best interests at heart. Sadly, this time, that's not the case.
The failed Presidency of the Bush administration is an illigitimate Presidency; he was crowbarred into the White House on the slimmest margin in the history of U.S. elections, and by fiat of a cowed Supreme Court. The Republican "platform" is a raft of phony partisanship and trumped-up wedge issues designed to appeal to wingnuts and win elections.
The fiasco in Iraq has Bush's fingerprints all over it; even now he continues to ignore advice of the adults who surround him, seasoned experts with viable alternatives to his childish Messianic delusions. Bush used dishonest scare tactics to start his War for Oil, and all of the hastily cobbled-together afterthought excuses about why we are there are as phony as everything else the Republicans have to say.
[They said we would be greeted with "sweets and flowers." They said the war would pay for itself. They said it would be over in 6 months. Every been swindled before? Well, you have now.]
There is no "winning" in Iraq for the United States. Silly Republican protests that we have to stay the course are ignoring the fact that the course we are on is a short trip to disaster. We can't even identify the enemy. Bush has NO strategy, except to further compromise our military.
One thing's for sure. The Democrats are not being forceful enough. They need to follow the advice of Pat Buchanan, and put a stop to this mess NOW. Bush and his cronies should be arrested for war crimes. We need to admit as a country that we have made a terrible mistake, that we've allowed a madman to take the reins of power, and that we have now come to our senses.
The Iraq Study Group has presented a comprehensive list of suggestions that the grownups in our goverment need to follow. Bush's approach is that of a drunken, cynical, spoiled frat boy, and is making a bad situation much worse.
There is no military solution in the Middle East. We need adults, people with negotiation skills, to bring the region to it's senses. The only ones who want the current anarchy are Bush and Al Qaida, both with their equally idiotic apocalyptic delusions.
Call your elected representatives and demand a public debate. Stop the Republican filibuster. Ask them how Bush expects to enforce Democracy in Iraq when he is destroying it here in the United States.
