ANYONE AWAKE IN THE LAST 6 YEARS KNOWS BUSH IS A COWARD, BUT WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE WOULD ABANDON AN AMERICAN GI TO THE TENDER MERCIES OF AL-SADR?

Excuse me for a moment. John Kerry isn't running for anything... anywhere. He made a gaffe. Bush has made one every day of his catastrophic residence in the White House. But if the far right wants to debate Iraq, Democrats should embrace the opportunity. And they might start with this story I've been seeing on CNN in the last 24 hours. I must be hearing it wrong; it makes no sense to me. What I think they're saying is that there are American soldiers at check points in Sadr City because an American GI was kidnapped and is being held there under the worst of circumstances-- Bush, Cheney and the rubber stamp Republican Congress (plus Harold Ford and Joe Lieberman, of course) having legislated that torture no long is prohibited (goose, gander, etc). Anyway, al-Maliki, Bush's prime minister of the Baghdad Green Zone, can't stay alive-- neither politically no breathing-wise-- without the support of Moqtada Al-Sadr's Mahdi Militia.

So Bush walked away? They're mad at John Kerry for botching a lame joke and they walked away from a search and rescue operation for an American GI being held by a renegade Iraqi militia because some make-believe prime minister of 6.3 square miles of the country Bush has wrecked and occupied says we must? WTF?

The United States Central Command has a cute chart that shows Iraq is either in a civil war or will be there before you finish reading this paragraph. And we're abandoning some mother's and father's son inside that Bush-created hellhole?

After January, Democratic moderates like Henry Waxman may want investigations and even impeachment. Bush and Cheney and the gangsters in charge of their regime need real trials that lead to real prisons and whatever else juries decide fits their crimes.