Bush's war

Although Rice will have the final say, the feeling is that they won't be fired outright, but "eased out". The mantra continues that no U.S. Diplomat has been killed in their care. I'd still like to know how many U. S. Diplomats were killed in the care of the U. S. Marines who traditionally guarded them.

My open feud with the News and Observer's editorial pages goes back a couple of years when the paper gave George Bush the benefit of the doubt regarding the his war in Iraq. The N&O wasn't exactly a cheerleader, and in his personal columns, Steve Ford often wondered about the long-term consequences of military action. But neither was the paper a strong and vocal critic of Bush's disastrous foreign policy.

Today's lead editorial is more of the same. The paper calls George Bush out on his stunning hypocrisy, but still holds on to the delusion of hope that something called "success" can emerge from the ashes of Iraq.

Every US death in this war was a person with a life, all too often too short, that was sacrificed on the altar of George W Bush's cupidity, greed and lies. And because George W Bush is
a coward for whom not admitting a mistake is more important than a soldiers life, there will be more deaths. Some will be people like Army Spc. Christopher D. Kube.

He was 18.

He was a newlywed.

He was killed on July 14, eight months after he arrived in Iraq on a deployment that made him nervous from the start, as one fellow soldier remembered. Back at his home station, Fort Carson, Colorado, he drew attention for being so young, so short, so slight and so cheerful.

If I hear the Child King talking about this one more time I'm just about going to go postal. It makes me sick.

The president also said the United States will hold the Iraqi government to its pledge to take responsibility for security in all of Iraq's provinces by November, pass legislation to share oil revenues among all Iraqis and spend $10 billion of its own money on reconstruction that will create new jobs.

I'm sorry, but the rising chorus of whining about the Iraqis failing to take responsibility for the security of their own country is just plain pathetic - especially because it's coming from Democrats and Republicans alike. All our so-called leaders are jumping on the bandwagon, declaring through both sides of their mouths that the stupid, lazy, no-account Iraqis need to pull themselves up by their goddamn bootstraps and get things back on track.