ELECT SOMEONE LIKE BUSH AND DON'T BE SURPRISED BY THE CATASTROPHIC RESULTS-- THE SUNDAY MORNING BAD NEWS IN IRAQ UPDATE

The Middle East-- and the world in general-- has become far too dangerous and explosive for American policy to be driven by a weak, incompetent loser like George Bush and the combination of greed-obsessed traitors and ideological hacks surrounding him. These people have shattered any sense of Pax Americana so carefully nurtured by the post-World War administrations of all previous American presidents, from Truman to Clinton-- including the father Bush is still rebelling against.

Foreign affairs has traditionally been a bipartisan endeavor. And then along comes the most ignorant and unqualified-- and unelected-- twerp and... kaBoom!-- it's all shattered. Today we have Republican senator Chuck Hagel, someone with whom I never agree on domestic issues but who, at least in terms of foreign policy, clearly puts America's best interests ahead of a narrow partisan agenda, explaining to raging right wing propagandist, Fox's Chris Wallace, that Iraq has gone beyond quagmire and into civil war and that American troops need to start withdrawing. Civil war in Iraq? Sounds like a Democrat?


Well, sounds like many Democrats, but certainly not like Bush's and Ann Coulter's favorite "Democrat," delusional Joe Lieberman who thinks the tragedy of Iraq is there so he can use it for political fodder to terrorize voters into returning him to the Senate. This morning Lieberman was on Face The Nation whining that he's a "loyal Democrat"-- confusing being rabidly loyal to the Bush Regime and the corporate agenda with supporting the well-being of the workers and consumers who make up the Democratic Party. In between smearing Ned Lamont and parroting Rove and Cheney talking points and right wing propaganda, Lieberman contradicts Hagel and tries to convince Americans that Iraq is not in a civil war and that the only way it will be a civil war is if Lamont wins the Connecticut election. Lieberman is clearly unfit for office. But he'd make a predictable Fox News host.

McCain did Meet the Press this morning and he seems to have slipped his moorings with reality entirely. Perhaps he thinks that claiming, the way Bush and Cheney and Lieberman do, that most Americans oppose an orderly timetable for withdrawing from Iraq will make it so. But thus far that isn't the case. All polls show only a shrinking minority of Americans favor staying the course. Most Americans want a plan like the one proposed by Jack Murtha that would extricate Americans from the Iraqi civil war. The Center for American Progress shows a video of McCain lying his ass off. Another pathetic hack just stood up, mooned the American people and screamed "I am unfit to lead. I will be your president."

And while Bush has been dragging the American military through the ill-conceived catastrophe of Iraq, a worse foreign policy disaster than even Vietnam, his sheer and grotesque incompetence has turned the only non-partisan initiative he took during his entire horrible presidency-- the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan-- into an abject failure. The Taliban have reconquered the Pashtun heartland of southern Afghanistan. And American and coalition troops are dying in battle there again.

If you're adverse to a tears in your eyes, don't watch the new Neil Young video for his song "Families" from the LIVING WITH WAR album.



We're stuck with Bush and his incompetent and avaricious cronies until 2008. Between now and then it is imperative to check his power to further destabilize our country and the world, by getting rid of the rubber stamp idiots from both parties in November. Connecticut's Democratic voters have made the first step by denying renomination to Lieberman. Democrats in Maryland-04 should do the same thing September 12 by choosing Donna Edwards to replace corrupt Bush rubber stamp Al Wynn in the Democratic primary there. (You can help Donna do that.) And then it's on to November.

Are there any Republicans worthy of being re-elected? The answer is no; there is not one. Not one. They all voted to institute-- and profit from-- the DeLay/Boehner/Frist/Santorum Culture of Corruption and they all support Bush's overall policy agenda. I challenge anyone to name a single Republican, up for re-election in November, who deserves to be re-elected. Please, just name even one.


UPDATE: FUN TIME AT CONNECTICUT BLOG

They've got a cool game going at Connecticut Blog where you can help identify each Lieberman lie on this morning's FACE THE NATION. Better than a crossword puzzle!