The Bottle Has Been Drained

What a perfect metaphor for the Bushspeak and the failed war effort.

I would have to check the transcript of the speech but I'm sure it was "Al Qaeda" that contributed to emptying the bottle. He used the term eight times in two paragraphs.

The New York Times delivered a rather blistering editorial which began thusly:

President Bush told Americans last night that failure in Iraq would be a disaster. The disaster is Mr. Bush’s war, and he has already failed. Last night was his chance to stop offering more fog and be honest with the nation, and he did not take it.

Not surprisingly, there are always going to be a few die-hard supporters of the Shrublet who feel he's always on the right path to success regardless of cost or consequences.

In other places, there was less reserved support for Bush and the reinforcement strategy. At an American Legion post near Fort Hood, Texas, Vietnam veteran George Payntar said he backed the president's plan.

"I think we need to stop the terrorism, stop it there," said Payntar, whose daughter has been stationed in Iraq since October. "If we pull out, they'll be here. I am afraid if we pull out now, we would lose the progress we made and the Iraqi people would suffer greatly."

How do people manage to keep their heads buried up their asses in the sand for so long? Most of what is going on in Iraq can't be attributed to terrorism unless you want to use the term in its loose sense: the war is terrifying so therefore it's terrorism. What "progress" have we made? Hasn't there already been great suffering by the Iraqi people? The dead Iraqis probably number in the hundreds of thousands and millions have fled the country for safer havens. The mind-boggling asinine stupidity of people is terrifying in and of itself.