Global Eye - Duck Soup - By Chris Floyd

[CHIMO]

Now is the summer of discontent for President George W. Bush, a man beset on every side -- by a failing war and falling popularity, by scandal, suspicion and rising hostility, even in the red-state heartlands. With each passing day of his long vacation in the Texas wastes, his presidency is shrinking palpably before our eyes, his wildly inflated public image shrivelling like a punctured balloon.

The fountainhead of his trouble, of course, is the murderous quagmire he has created in Iraq. Some say he has no exit strategy, no way to escape the corrosive effects of this gargantuan disaster, which is draining his support and destroying the aura of the all-conquering "war leader" that he used to impose his radical right-wing agenda on the country. The tide has turned against him at last, some say; he's a lame duck crashing to the ground.

But those writing Bush's political obituary have "misunderestimated" him once again. For it's becoming increasingly clear that Bush does have an exit strategy from Iraq -- and it runs through Iran.

More war is the only way for the Bush Faction to maintain its power and keep advancing its rapacious agenda. So there will be more war.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/08/19/120.html

[wli]

1. a relief to see "summer of discontent"

I've seen too many people misuse "winter of discontent."

[phantom power]

2. Maybe. I don't think they can pull off another bogus war.

BushCo has cried wolf once too often. Nobody will buy a war with Iran.

[Karenina]

3. It doesn't matter what we "nobodies" think.

10 million in the streets are but a "focus group."

[cyr330]

4. Nothing surprises me

The American public is so fucking stupid that they would follow dumb ass off a cliff. I have NO respect for those who voted for that stupid shit hole, and rest assured that they'll be fooled by any monstrous lie that this administration tells them. In fact, if they heard from the corporate media that the asshole sprouted wings and took flight, they would believe it.

Nonetheless, the thing that may put a monkey wrench into the works is the fact that our military is already over stretched, and our "credit card" limit is already maxed out, and we have no funds to pay for more wars.