Americans deserve the unspun truth about Iraq

[dogday]

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050708/COLUMNIST13/507080312

WHEN it's hot here, it's 110 degrees in Iraq. There are miserable sandstorms. The electrical grid is up and running less than in prewar times. It's impossible to tell friend from foe. Suicide bombings and mortar attacks are common. The number of American dead is inching daily toward the 2,000 mark. About six times as many young soldiers have been maimed for life.

Several thousand Iraqis have died since sovereignty was returned to an interim government a year ago. The alienated parties to the U.S.-brokered governing body have been fighting for relevance ever since. A new, unifying constitution is supposed to be crafted by August, planting the seeds for a trend-setting democracy in the Middle East. Nobody's betting the farm on meeting that deadline.

In the meantime, foreign envoys have become the latest targets of the insurgency, a term that actually covers myriad warring parties, from disenfranchised natives to committed terrorists, tearing up the country. If Iraq wasn't a hotbed for insurrection and Islamic zealots before the Bush War, it is now. They will seize this chaotic moment in history to advance their civil war or jihad no matter the cost to themselves or innocent others.

George W. Bush, the man who set up the whole scenario with unsubstantiated claims of weapons of mass destruction, with sensational but phony arguments of the smoking gun being a "mushroom cloud," with tragically premature "mission accomplished" propaganda and inane "bring it on" bravado, wants Americans to trust him again.

[TwentyFive]

1. But to the irresponsible, snotty frat BOY - this is a College FRAT Prank

...on those poor suckers from the wrong side of the tracks.

Bush has never lived in the real world. Being a business executive means having daddy's friends brankroll you, pull strings for you, and overlook your drinking and incompetence. But the fact that the media and voting public go along with this? That is what pisses me off!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. I trust him to keep effing up and bring on WWIII... needlessly, foolishly

arrogantly, unconsciously, hypocritically, irresponsibly, and effectively.