Don't you know. This is an administration that does not live in the reality based world; they create their own reality and we just live in it. It would be so great to see them implodel like Hitler and Himmler taking the cyanide tablets. I can't imagine any administration more deserving of that or the firing squad. If they declare marshall law I will not be the first to join the revolution.

Off to polish and clean my AK 47.

Damn! Who let those closeted gay Republican congressmen into the Maryland National Guard?

Does she know he's not dead yet?

Can't wait to hear her version of:

"Heeba deeba dooba deeba heeba deeba do. Cleavage! Cleavage!"

At the close of the interview Rick Santorum began to prance around the interview room, hunched over while screaming, "Precious! Must have my Precious!"

All revolutions devour their own children.

While the Bush administration told Americans they were invading to liberate the Iraqi people, the military soldiers were told that the Iraqis were responsible for 911. This is why polls of soldiers showed such an alarmingly high number of those who thought they were fighting the same terrorists who flew planes into the world trade center.

The horrors committed at Abu Ghraib were committed because American soldiers believed a lie. Thanks to such Bushit, anyone who entered Abu Ghraib who might have greeted the US as liberators certainly exited the prison determined to hate us.

But then, this is what happens when you elect a bunch of yellow bellied draft dodgers determined to do anything to look the macho they never were.

Sometime today it is likely that the 2,800th US soldier will be killed in Iraq. I hope it isn't Ms. Martin's son, or anyone else's son or daughter, but it is sadly all too likely, and what will be accomplished for that loss?

While there has been much discussion about the number of casualties, both Iraqi and US, I haven't heard anything about the estimate of the number of Iraqis involved in either the Sunni insurgency, the Shia militias, or the Kurdish independenc movement, let alone the number of foreign terrorists. My guess is at least half a million and that number may be low by half. I'm not even including the number of Iraqis giving aid, support and shelter to the fighters. Further, their access to munitions seems infinite.

The point of this question, is that the myth of standing up Iraqis so the US can stand down, is just that; a myth. Even if the Iraq army could field twice as many soldiers as the US, equally trained and equipped (which they aren't), what makes anyone think they would have any better luck putting down the insurgency and sectarian violence than the US has had.

Seizing, holding, and rebuilding is no better a strategy than the stand up/stand down chimera. The US and Iraqi army may seize a town, but cannot expect to hold it or rebuild it without the support of the majority of the populace. Rebuilding is a pipe dream wen a single insurgant with an AK47 cam shut down the electicity for an entire block, merely by putting a bullet in a transformer.

If the US is to find any realistic strategy in Iraq, Buschco has to ask the tough questions: How large are the insurgents and militis? How

much or little support does the Iraqi government have among the Iraqi people? How inflitrated is the government with insurgent or militia agents? How infiltrated is the police and army with insurgents and militiamen?

If the insurgency is small, the militias, contained and the terrorists in their last throes, and the government widely supported by Iraqis and their local leaders, then stick with the strategy.

If, however, the answers are 1 a million or more, less support than the US congress enjoys, and lots and lots, then it is time to leave. The US is badly outnumbered, has no goverment to effectively or morally support, and no army or police force to help. Set a deadline and give the different factions that much time to make peace or they will have to just kill eaachother without our help.

I only wish our government would ask these questions, get the true answers and make the right choices before death number 2800. That possiblity, sadly, doesn't look any likelier than mission accomplished.

Not just Russert.

This is a complaint many foreign leaders and journalists have made about Bush. The Palestinians were at a loss for words when Bush told them that God himself had ordained their would be a Palestinian State. He doesn't listen to his father, but to his Father.

Incapable of making any decision based on logic, knowledge, experience or wisdom, and even less capable of recognizing the wise advisors from the fools, faith is all Bush has ever had. Blind faith.

Such faith does not allow for trial and error, for weighing of risks, consideration of valid opposing views, or recognition of fallibility. All such doubts or conflicts are merely signs of weakness to the blind faithful. And God has not place for the weak when it comes to carrying out his mission.

There's a great golfing joke with a punch line that goes something like: "Who does he think he is, Jesus? "No." says Moses, "He thinks he's Arnold Palmer."

It's not that Bush thinks he's the Messiah, in that 'drink the koolaid' Jim Jones kind of way. It's that he cannot believe God may not be talking to him and directing and protecting him and his decisions. To think otherwise would be to consider how totally in over his head he is, with no one to trust to lead him on the right course.