Let us get out

The Senate confirmation hearings for Condaleeza Rice are being postponed until January as the White House says they would be inappropriate in December. But no one has given any explanation as to why. So why? Is she somehow going to be more qualified in January? Richard Lugar, the head of the committee overseeing this confirmation, says she will have no trouble being confirmed. The fact that she has been most incompetent as National Defense Advisor, and has lied blatantly on more than one occasion, and is also well known as a complete Bush toady, apparently means nothing to the Senate.

A reporter back from two years in Iraq, interviewed by Anderson Cooper, makes it quite clear that the situation in Iraq is much worse than we are being led to believe. There are even areas of Bagdad itself that are under the control of the resistance. This apparently includes an area immediately across the river from the so-called Green Zone that allows the resistance to lob mortar shells directly into the Green Zone while the U.S. is unable to realistically stop them. And, whereas this reporter used to be able to travel almost anywhere in Iraq, he now cannot even move outside of the Green Zone for fear of kidnappers who patrol the area immediately surrounding it waiting for victims. But not to worry, elections are going to proceed on schedule, according to Alawi and the Bush Administration. They probably will because we are now so desperate to get out of this absolute disaster that has been created by the neocon nitwits that brought it about. Another spectacular defeat for the mightiest military in the world. If elections actually do take place, no matter what the outcome or how illegitimate they might be, we can declare victory and slip away with our tails between out legs just as we did in Vietnam. And I’ll bet ten to one we never rebuild Fallujah. We couldn’t even if we actually wanted to because we won’t have enough resources left to buy a free lunch. God, I love the Bush/Cheney Administration. At least they are protecting us from the incredible horrors of gay marriages.

Bush is apparently going through with his visit to Ottawa tomorrow in spite of the threats of massive demonstrations and the fact that the Canadians have been discussing charging him with war crimes. Apparently as a visiting head of state he cannot actually be charged with anything, and as the Canadians cannot realistically keep him from visiting, he will be treated with the respect due such an august visitor. He will be well advised, however, to not visit Canada once he is no longer President. And that goes for Rumsfeld and some of the other neocons as well. Just think of the possibilites (which will not occur) if he were to be charged with war crimes. The rest of the world would be on the side of the Canadians, as would half the population of the U.S., so it would come down to a case of the red states versus the blue states and the rest of the world. Alas, it will not happen.