..and not only that, you're attributing practically magical and super human powers of foresight and competence and intelligence to them. They are not like that, and probably no one ever was. They are just dumb fat asses who lucked into positions of power with no real idea of how the real world works. And all of their actions to date have proven this.

We know that Bush was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. Well, they are basically ALL like that in the Bush administration. None of them have ever actually built anything or accomplished anything out in the real world. Certainly not Cheney or Rumsfeld or Rice. If you listen to these people, you find they are no more than babbling idiots. Rumsfeld goes on about "known unknowns" and Cheney about insurgents in their "last throes" and Rice thinks that reports labeled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in US" are only "historical," whatever that might mean.

These people think that money comes from having a nice job and saying the right things to keep that job--no matter how idiotic or downright stupid those things to say might be. And this is true of Americans in this generation in general. We have a media that thought Rumsfeld was a genius, even while he babbled stupidly as the war in Iraq went to hell from the get go. We have a Democratic opposition that thinks the best way to oppose the war is to not say or do anything against the war at all. And we have a left that thinks SOMEBODY smart must be in charge, right?

Well, maybe the Bush administration thought somebody smart must be in charge as well, because they sure as hell never seem to have entertained the idea that anything could ever be their fault or that they could ever possibly mess anything up. But mess up they did. Unfortunately, it appears that nobody was ever in charge at all, smart or otherwise. And the left needs to start understanding that. Nobody is in charge.

...we're told that Bremer was told exactly what would happen if the Iraqi army was disbanded: thousands of men would immediately join the insurgency that night and start killing Americans.

Well, any person of intelligence would immediately grasp the truth of this, wouldn't you think? But Bremer blows them off: why? Because he didn't think he had to think about it; he thought somebody higher than him was in charge. He was looking to say and do the right things to keep his job and thinking for himself was going to interfere in that.

This is just too typical of Americans in this time: nobody thinks they have to think for themselves, because they think somebody else is in charge. They might God is in charge or they might think the super powerful military industrial complex is in charge or they might think the professors and the think tanks are in charge. The businessmen might think Cheney is charge and Cheney might think the businessmen are in charge. We know for a fact that the president is taking his advice from the generals while the generals are obliged to take their orders from him. So nobody ends up being in charge, and this is the essence of the problem. Nobody's in charge and nobody seems to knows it.

What needs to be done is for each one of us to start thinking for ourselves, because we are really the only people who are in charge.

...'cause that's what it is.

And Bush is going to put the term 'jackass' into the history books.

...and because he's still an idiot. He is extraordinarily politically vulnerable right now and does not quite seem to know it yet.

Bush has to start putting up real results in Iraq soon or he is going to be in big trouble. He can't be impeached for invading Iraq, or for his other crimes, because the Democrats sadly supported the invasion and the Patriot Act. He can, however, be impeached for egregious incompetence in the conduct of the war. That might get broad bipartisan support, the way things are going now.

The only problem is who might replace him. If Bush is impeached then Cheney will be out too, I have no doubt. I'm thinking now that the Iraq Study Commission might end up being the commission that ate the presidency: how about Baker and Hamilton for president and vice-president?

Baker, btw, is a REAL sob and we might be in real trouble if he becomes president. But I don't see who would or could stop him.

All the generations from Boomers on down to the Barneybabies (now fighting in Iraq as we speak) are very much alike.

This is because America has not changed much since the 70s. We are a static, even stagnant nation.

We've had virtually the same music, fashions, and tv shows since the 70s. If you watch reruns of Saturday Night Live, none of the shows are obviously antiques.

..will be by way of getting rid of Bush and Cheney. And I'm betting it will be the Republicans who finally get rid of them.

Bush and Cheney may very well opt for the choice of impeachment or resignation rather than ever admit defeat.

...and thanks for running it.

The implication here is that we never won the cold war at all and may in fact have lost it.

...but I'm highly doubtful that any number of photographic brushes could kill a person. Hairs get loose from brushes and people do ingest them. If some number of brushes could kill a person from radioactive polonium, than an ingested hair ought to almost certainly cause cancer very shortly down the road. I doubt anything like this would be allowed.