Blah blah freedom blah blah democracy blah blah stand up / stand down blah blah

Someone impeach that dufus already. Seriously, before he can do any more harm. The Democrats are putting up actual opposition now that they are in power, and yet they keep saying that there isn't much they can do. Sure they can! Impeach that jackass! Impeach Cheney, as well. That'll of course leave us with President Pelosi... but that's worlds better than what we have now. Isn't it?

And for Pete's sake, will this gang of thugs ever be tried for war crimes? Can we, the people do more than roar in impotent rage when this gaggle of criminals burns our country to the ground? This is ridiculous, folks.

I was so hopeful that the Democratic takeover of Congress would mean something to the leadership of the Executive. Looks like it doesn't. What will it take? A popular uprising? Dammit, I don't wanna. I got better things to do than pick up a rifle and start a revolution. But really, will something be done otherwise?

This administration has adopted a cowboy swagger from the start. However, instead of a mighty bull, what we have here is a puffer fish: tough talk but no muscle behind it. A question presents itself: if the Executive are so damn tough that they can flout the U.N., wave off the allies (those, that is, who can muster more than a token 200 soldiers) and bravely take on the seemingly un-ending stream of extremist guerillas, why are they (and their apologists) suddenly blaming their failures on the "lack of support" from the opposition.

Oh, if only the majority of Americans were so patriotic as to jump off the cliff, lemming-like, with the rest of the war-mongering idiots, we just might have won this conflict. That's because, you see, the terrorists in Baghdad and elsewhere would have seen America united in its lunacy and uh, promptly surrendered.

Please. Our esteemed elected leaders have caved in, once, and authorized a massive political, diplomatic and strategic blunder that has, arguably, set our nation on a course of self-destruction unseen since the Vietnam war. Even then, in the shadow of 9/11 (back when its images were still potent) the administration had to use every lie in the Cheater's Handbook to dupe the nation into supporting the war. Even than, many Americans did not. Even THEN, many of those who supported smashing Saddam Hussein (like I did), did not support the occupation. Even those of us who aren't very smart could figure out that in order to hold Iraq together we will have to duplicate the ruthless dictatorship of the man we destroyed, and if we wouldn't do it, Iraq would produce someone who would. Hello, Mr. al-Sadr.

So I bet you, do not bring up that bullshit about "lack of support". Americans are freedom-loving people. We do not appreciate being lied to, we do not appreciate being taken for fools and we certainly do not appreciate being used. You fuck around with our faith and our values at your peril. Sure, the "haters" amongst us do not support this war. That's not because we are cowards. That's because we do not approve of our young men and women being killed for nothing and we are very, very angry with our administration. And we do not like being blamed for other people's mistakes.

Boy, that man makes me sick. Someone, hit him with a chair already!

But you know what? What I really want right now is to meet Ned Lamont and take him (gently) by the collar and shake the bejeebus out of him, while shouting: "Do you now see what you've done your bloody moron!?" That was one election this nation could not afford to lose.

Stupid Lamont. Grr.