"Bush said the "biggest mistake" from "our country's involvement in Iraq" was Abu Ghraib. "We've been paying for that for a long time," Bush said."

Bush is not only out of touch, he's just plain fuckin' out of his mind! Randi Rhodes said it best on the Lou Dobbs program a few weeks ago. "He's insane."

While I quickly tire of Rhodes' overblown hysteria, I can't argue with her on this one: Bush is fucking insane.

Bush may think Abu Ghraib was the corker, but he ain't seen nothin' yet. My Lai, here we go again.

And now this sudden phony contrition trying to explain that in certain parts of the world, his stupid-ass cowboy talk was "misinterpreted."

No it wasn't. It wasn't misinterpreted. It was what it was: The braggadocio of a lame little coward who never even got in a schoolyard fight, let alone carried a weapon into combat.

His "Bring it on," and his Gunsmoke "Wanted dead or alive," bullshit galvanized our enemies and convinced our allies that the leader of the free world is a complete dumb ass.

And now he says, "So I learned from that."

I guess that's good. I'm glad he learned something. It probably brings a lot of comfort to the families of dead and greivously wounded military who were ground up like hamburger that our stupid little fuck-wit president was getting some on-the-job training at their expense.

Bah!

While "Big Time Dick" is amusing himself with a pen knife and creating a list of people who he would like to see burned alive, our Decider sits, his mind as empty as his unburdened desk, waiting for someone to come and give him something to decide on.

That's the way it always is in American politics. "Let's move forward," says Bill when somebody throws the dead cat on the table: Why did your wife go along with Bush on this illegal, immoral and totally unnecessary war?

Let's move on, shall we?

Funny thing is, people are doing time in prison for murder, they're doing time in prison for fraud.

The Iraq War is murder and fraud and instead of holding anyone accountable ...

let's move on, shall we?

Bah!

Blah blah blah.

When I was at state university during the height of the sexual revolution everybody was getting laid. Everybody, that is, except the jocks and the Frat Rats. They were so insecure and confused they had to travel in packs, going to strip clubs and whackin' themselves raw with a Hustler Magazine. Now their grandsons are at Duke, doin' the same sick, dysfunctional stuff.

Hey lads, grow up. Try real sex instead of the twisted freak stuff. It's a lot more fun than watching some nasty skank bobbin' her junk in your face. The Lacrosse Women obviously think you are pretty swell. So get busy!

I wonder if a little red light ever crossed even one of the Lacrosse players' minds as he traveled to the party. Something on the order of:

"What the hell am I exposing myself to? I'm almost finished with an undergrad degree in Business and I've got prospects for jobs with several top companies. Yet here I am, headed for a drunken mosh that's supposed to have a couple of naked skanks for entertainment. I wonder how this would look if things turned ugly and I was arrested and booked for something really, really embarrassing and possibly career ending."

Obviously not.

Morale and discipline have broken down in the lower ranks of the combat arms branches serving in Iraq. Despite all the lies and bullshit you will hear in the coming days, the horrible truth is leaking out of Iraq like body fluids. John Murtha told the truth: Our military men and women are at the psychological and physical breaking point.

Rumsfeld's press secretary Joe DiRita, will be spitting out lies faster than a chain gun in the coming weeks.

It was just a small number of renigade lance corporals and gunny sergeants.

Morale is high and we're doing great things, bringing democracy, painting school rooms, handing out teddy bears.

Joe DiRita, like his boss, never served in combat. Joe DiRita, like his boss, never let his own kids join the military.

Yet Joe DiRita recently called combat correspondent Joe Galloway crazy for agreeing with Murtha. Then I guess Gen. Barry McCaffery is crazy too. Now there are over a dozen retired generals who can no longer be threatened for speaking their minds. They must be crazy too.

And I am crazy too. I spent my year up on the Cambodia border in 1970. I know something about physical and psychological breaking points. Morale and discipline problems come from the top down. The top is Donald Rumsfeld. I'd say it was ultimately George W. Bush, but he's such an out-of-touch fuckwit it's hard for anybody to say he's really in control of anything.

So brace yourselves for the upcoming "bullshit-from-a-firehose" technique of situation management from the Pentagon. I'm not sure it's going to work this time.

It's time for Donald Rumsfeld to go.