http://www.commondreams.org/vi…..315-35.htm

I often will compose in Word and proof before I copy and past it into the comment block; it may not catch all the typos, but it helps!

With so much incompetence, and with the incompetents still “on the job,†it is not clear to me how things in Iraq (or anywhere else) can get on track before the whole country just explodes in conflagration, and becomes irretrievably lost. It just kills me to see our young men and women working so hard at such a futile endeavor, and being rewarded upon their return with unconscionably inadequate health benefits.

It would be one thing if we had planned and executed in accordance with the plan, and things had gone in another direction, but to know that there was planning that was ignored (just as there was intelligence that was ignored), ought to be enough to send Rumsfeld and company packing. Unfortunately, firing that cabal is about as useful as cutting off the dead branches of a tree that has a fatal case of root rot and thinking that it will make things better. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.

If the Bushies were as smart as they think they are, they would have long ago brought the Dems to the table, if for no other reason than to share ownership of this debacle. Instead, all they can do is point to the Dems and say, “But YOU voted for the war, so this is your fault, too.†Unfortunately, the administration has used that quite effectively to silence any criticism. Rather than see the Dems resort to the lame and whiny response of, “but you didn’t tell us the truth,†I would rather see the Dems not fall for that tactic, and force the conversation back to the FACT of the mess and what this administration is going to do about it. That presumes, of course, that the administration is capable of a credible effort to admit to the reality of what is happening in Iraq. Sending Bush out to the usual friendly audiences to give speeches about how it’s so hard, but we are going to win, is an exercise that is falling on deaf ears, and is not doing one damn thing to change conditions on the ground in Iraq. Not one damn thing.

There have been so many points along the way where we had the power to change the direction of this war; instead, the administration has inexplicably and passively watched one failure after another from the sidelines and refused to do anything different. Isn’t that the old definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

I’m at the point – and have been for some time – where I honestly cannot listen to Bush utter even one word without my back (and my blood pressure) going up and my skin crawling. I have the same reaction when I READ what he says, as I can hear his voice in my head. ACK!

Thanks again, Christy, to both you and Jane, for all that you bring us in the way of information. I truly believe that knowledge is power, and while we all feel pretty powerless at this point, I think the time is not far off when all this knowledge will stand us in good stead.

Clearly, I could use some preview myself, or you guys are going to start calling me the Typo Queen. lol

Uncertainty is the air. Will the Guns of March replay? Any rational observer predicted that the Invasion of Iraq was fraught with dangers. All of which are coming true in spades. Yet, these consequences are tame when compared to a bombing campaign on Iran that could easily spiral into an economic depression or unleash the horrors of nuclear war. If a leader was so delusional to invade Iraq, couldn’t he be so detached from reality to start bombing Iran?

On top of this corporate media and Congress have bought into the war mentality. There is no clear discussion of what is really happening or oversight of the executive branch.

In the Summer of 2001, Pakistan ISI Chief Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad transferred $100000 to 9-11 Ringleader Mohamed Atta. On September 4th 2001, he arrived in the US. On the morning of 9/11, he was having breakfast with Senator Phil Graham.

Pakistan’s ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) planned the 9/11 attacks, and sub contracted the work to Osama and Al Qaeda. The head of Saudi intel was fired in August 2001 — but it was reported that he was in Las Vegas in the weeks preceding 9/11, and he help organized the Saudi escape flights after the attacks. Las Vegas was rendezvous central for the 9/11 hijackers.

On the morning of 9/11, Israeli Mossad agents were arrested in New Jersey, after videotaping the attacks on the WTC.

Of all the countries in the Middle East, only Iraq had NO CONNECTIONS to the 9/11 attacks. All of this was known before Bush launched the invasion.