Here's the Bushies' take, via "Al Loomis":

"seems to me that the usa is trying to establish an iraqi client state, cow saudi arabia and syria, shore up israel, control middle eastern oil and deny it to china. there have been major setbacks"

Even if these are the real objectives, I can't see ANY that have been achieved. I'd say rather that Bushco's objective can be summarised as follows:

• Wage a costly, unlimited occupation of the only regional buffer against Iran. Destroy its infrastructure and all its institutions, particularly those which maintain order and rule of law. Foment a civil war within the country. Reduce its oil production by half; create global instability in order to raise oil prices and maximise profits for oil company Bushco clients. Also maximise the conversion of public money into the private hands of Bushco sponsors (Haliburton, Blackwater, etc.). Accomplish all this with a trillion dollars of borrowed money, while cutting taxes in all those Bushco clients who benefit financially.

• Bushco has been very very successful at achieving its observed aims. Its fantasy aims are still fantasy, but attractive to true believers like Al Loomis. Fantasy is more attractive after all than the pathetic reality - our federal government has been hijacked by greedy, lying, incompetent, corrupt tools, who will scruple to nothing to advance their private interests at public expense.

• It is to vomit.

Two reasons:

1) He has no honr, doesn;t know what it is, and he is in very good company among the Bushco prostitutes.

2) He's lying.

These people are beneath contempt. The Samurai solution applies.

I'd attribute a lot of the excessive behavior in Iraq by US soldiers to steroid use. Their use in High schools, particularly among football players, is endemic. (I base this on admittedly anecdotal evidence, but I talk to a lot of people!).

Take a look at some of the beefy ( I mean they look like beef cattle, over-muscled and unnatural-looking) high school players. This cannot be good for a still-developing body. I mean, the effects will not show up for years - the biggest sign is man-boobs (moobs, or bitch tits). This is a sign of steroid-caused hormonal imbalance. Fertility can be affected.

Cannabis is a good way to wean the body from chemical dependance, including steroids, tobacco, alcohol, and meth. It's medicinal. It's fucking medicine for your body from God, from Our Mother. To make it illegal is stupid, cruel, and evil.

But Barry Bonds is in the record books because of steroids - so they will not go away. But it makes the body sick (aggressive, big, and mean), and that makes society sick in the same way. Mean mean robots. Steroid monsters. Watching Fox news and blowing shit up.

Feh. Corporatist prostitutes. Fucking feeble fatuous functionaires.

Nothing will change without bodies in action.

If it's true, and his campaign has such subtlety of strategy, why doesn't he apply this to an area he seems rather weak in?

I mean, Social Security? Out of lying sack of shit's playbook?

He sure lost me there. Go haircut boy!

I suspect that much of the bad behavior of US troops in Iraq is fueled by steroids. These drugs are pervasively abused in our country, and the effects are long-term, and pernicious. It wouldn't surprise me if the military was supplying steroids, as they supply methamphetamines to pilots. Or at the very least, turning a blind eye.

They're also cheap enough that high school football players use them - I know from social and work contacts that this is the case, at least on the West coast. Look at the size of these young men - I played high school football 30 years ago, and these giants of today are NOT natural in comparison.

But, the big problem is cannabis. Oh, ya, I must have forgotten how demonic this stuff is. Much more dangerous than pharmaceutical synthetic hormones.

Epitomised by our fine President - euphemistically called "incurious", he is rather deliberately, willfully ignorant. He simply doesn't want to know, and neither do those who support him. They'd rather live in a fantasy, reinforced by a complicit media.

It doesn't hurt this syndrome to live in a mental world ruled by a punishing authoritarian Heavenly Being, either.

People are starved for honesty in a country whose leaders habitually lie about EVERYTHING. Corrupt prostitutes, shills for moneyed interests, self-serving sellouts - these are our elected officials. The only two presidential candidates who speak the truth are Paul and Kucinich. The rest are

odious equivicators, mealy-mouthed slicksters, fatuous flim-flammers.

Fuck them.

One consequence of Bushco's retarded, violent, failure of a foreign policy - NO influence over either friend or foe. And why should anyone do what our incompetent ignorant "administration" says? They have proven time and time again that the consequences of loyally toeing the line are betrayal as soon as the going gets tough (Kurds, Turkey, eg. How about Tony Blair's one-way relationship?), and that we can be given the one-fingered salute with impunity (Israel, Venezuela).

It will take decades to repair the damage done by these fucking pinheads. The world is laughing. Bush is a joke.

Obama appears to have picked Social Security as his "key issue". But the Social Security trust fund, even under the most conservative assumptions, and existing contribution and benefit levels, does not require reducing benefits until 2044, and even then can continue paying benefits at 70% of existing levels.

It's Medicare that is within 3 or 4 years of complete insolvency.

Just on this basis, Obama has demonstrated very questionable fiscal and political judgment. I seriously doubt if he is presidential material. I mean, who was the last guy who made Social Security a "key issue"? And I can't imagine anyone less presidential than that incompetent lying thief.

Especially if you're also a pig - hard to open a lipstick with those little cloven hooves........

Fucking unbelievable. This is so screwed up that words fail me.

IMPEACH THE LYING CRIMINAL BASTARDS NOW!