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Desperation?

There is a certain mood of desperation in the air now, no? Unless you are an idiot, a right wing maniac or a Christian zealot you have to realize that the war on Iraq was a colossal mistake, and that the country is sliding further into chaos daily. There will certainly be more than 100 US troops killed this month (we might be at that figure already, CENTCOM has not updated there database as yet), many towns are under siege, major highways are closed, bridges have been blown up, and it seems that most of the civilian force is squirreled away inside the ever more dangerous "green zone".

Fence sitters and war supporters of all stripes have been throwing in the towel on it. Listening to our minor league president babble incoherently at press conferences to simple, pointed questions (finally!) isn't helping anything. Giving Ariel Sharon everything he wanted in the West Bank in trade for the Gaza strip only cements in the minds of Muslims everywhere that we are on the side of, in not an agent of, the state of Israel. The continued assassinations against the spiritual leaders of Hamas (Yassin, Rantisi) only cements that thought in many Arab and Muslin minds.

At the Bush/Blair news conference on Friday the President squarely put the turnover of Iraq on the shoulders of the United Nations. Pretty funny huh? Scott McClelland sputters intensely about how the President always said the UN should be involved in the "political" solution - just stay out of the way while we are doing the killing. The world is shaking their heads and laughing at us right now - those that aren't crying over the daily tragedy in Iraq.

And has anyone noticed that anyone and everyone who leaves/quits/gets forced out by this administration has nothing good to say (Clarke, Dilulio, O'Neil)? Does the American public think this is just a coincidence? They are rotten on the inside. The President is in way over his head and the country, the world, is suffering for it. I have a hope that maybe after Woodward's new book Colin Powell will come clean, step down from his post, and blast this Administration for what it is, a seething mess of partisan hacks and incompetent fools who are really only worried about one thing - power.

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Posted by: Adrienne at April 20, 2004 02:30 AM