More details of tonight's speech by Bush to sell his insanity to the American public are oozing out. I usually like to have a bottle of tequila standing by whenever the Shrublet makes a TV appearance but in all honesty, I don't see how I can even make an effort to watch this drivel tonight. This first paragraph alone makes me nauseated.
President Bush will tell a nation weary of war Wednesday night that he is sending 21,500 more Americans to Iraq, arguing it has been a mistake not to commit larger numbers of U.S and Iraqi troops to stabilize the increasingly violent, shattered country.
Yes, a mistake was made. A mistake was made when George H.W. Bush and Barbara copulated in the autumn of 1944 and a mistake was made when Barbara conceived. Another mistake was made when she didn't abort. But let's just stick to the mistakes of this administration. This war was a mistake. Sending more troops simply increases the odds that more will die for this mistake, but Bush, in his quest for glory is prepared to put all the chips on the table regardless of the long odds. The spilled blood is on his hands. Chips, in this case, being the lives of young men & women.
Bush, meanwhile, is putting the onus on the Iraqis to meet their responsibilities and take the lead in the fighting, but without the threat of specific consequences if they do not.
"The Iraqis have to step up," White House counselor Dan Bartlett said.
A lot of things have to happen.
I have spent more than a few nights in a Vegas casino throwing my last few dollars at a slot machine thinking, "I have to get lucky eventually." I didn't, and what I had to do was walk away, humbly, but knowing I'd learned my lesson.
After nearly four years of fighting, $400 billion and thousands of American and Iraqi lives lost, [ahem, make that tens of thousands, if not in the hundreds of thousands] approval of the president's handling of the war hit a record low of 27 percent in December, according to an AP-Ipsos poll.
Anybody want to bet it'll be below 23 percent within 2 months?
Just to put this in perspective, there are 744,000 homeless people in the United States. Had this $400 billion war in Iraq been spent on the homeless problem, that would amount to roughly $530,000 per person. Assuming that's at least ten times the amount needed to solve the homeless problem, you have to wonder what other great strides this nation could have made rather than allowing an insane halfwit obsessive tyrant to wreck us.
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