It's Really Kind Of Sad

I've been watching the puppet show in Washington over this troop "surge" of Bush's, and it's turning away from a comedy of errors to a real tragedy.

Bush--chin jutted out like a defiant ten-year-old--tells us all he's going to do whatever he wants in Iraq and now Iran... while gloating over the fact that the Democrats have been completely outmaneuvered and rendered fangless in this war of words over cutting off funds.

Several really saddening things are happening all at once.

President George Texas Ranger Walker Bush, the most destructive president to America's interests in history, defiantly continues down his road of folly into the history books as the worst American leader... ever.

The few remaining Republicians who realize the disaster that Iraq has become--but still childishly want to support "their" president--voice pitiful platitudes about the potential success of Bush's latest mistake, puttering around vocally like old people in a rest home, aimless and directionless, empty words spilling out over the clatter of false teeth.

The Democrats, livid over being outmaneuvered by the idea that cutting off funds for the "surge" has been skillfully tranformed into a lack of support for the troops, are sputtering around with "resolutions" that mean nothing and will accomplish nothing. Now they threaten to rescind the President's authority to project military force without the explicit permission and active oversight of Congress, which just might a good thing, considering what this war-mongering, blood-thristy Texas putz has done with that authority.

So here we all sit, watching our troops get slaughtered in an Iraq coming apart at the seams, our president drooling at the mouth for more blood and guts, while both the Democrats and the Republicians toss spit wads at each other on national TV all day long.

And meanwhile, the man who caused 911, sits safe and sound over somewhere on the Pakistan/Afganistan border, amused by the whole dog and pony show... completely forgotten by Bush, Cheney, Rice and the rest of the kindergarden playground gang.

Never--for even a second--believe that this government does not know where Osama is.

Those American troops in Afganistan.... remember them? They're not being supported by anybody in Washington, and are losing the war over there.

It really is kind of sad.