OK, OK-- BUSH HAS SCREWED UP COMPLETELY IN IRAQ, BUT HOW'S HE BEEN DOING IN THE WAR ON TERROR?

Today on Meet The Press Lieberman, good little Republican that he's been all along, repeated the thoroughly discredited White House talking point that 9/11 was perpetrated by "the same enemy who we're fighting in Iraq today." Although Chuck Hagel (R-NE) slapped him down in a general way, so much of what Lieberman was spewing was disingenuous that Hagel could hardly get to it all. In fact, as always, everything that came out of Lieberman's mouth was patently false and, by design, misleading. That's the kind of guy he is and has always been. To Lieberman, who sincerely believes the only good Arab is a dead Arab, the amorphous "War on Terror" and a cataclysmic war to the death against Iraq, Syria, Iran and anyone else who wants to join was always one in the same. He's a dangerous sociopath... like everyone with any influence in the Bush Regime.

A couple of people with high level Bush Regime posts were testifying before Congress last week, outgoing Intel Chief/death squad promoter, John Negroponte, and ex-CIA operative/State Department terror coordinator, Henry Crumpton. A practiced liar and propagandist, with ambitions to replace Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State, Negroponte just punted and reiterated the White House line about what a dangerous place the world is (someone forgetting to mention the role of the regime he toadies for making it that way).

Crumpton, on the other hand, apparently has no further aspirations within the Regime. His assessments were... chilling. They point inexorably to one thing: Bush has done the worst possible job at prosecuting the "war on terror." He told Newsweek's Michael Isikoff that "a worldwide surge in Islamic radicalism has worsened recently, increasing the number of potential terrorists and setting back U.S. efforts in the terror war."

I doubt Bush and those who pull his strings will find anything to feel good about in what Crumpton had to say:

Certainly, we haven't made any progress. In fact, we've lost ground... We don't want to acknowledge we're going to get hit again in the homeland, but we are. That's a hard, ugly fact. But it's going to happen.

Bush's gratuitous war against Iraq has accomplished one thing: it has fueled vast resentment and unabiding hatred against our country. Cheney can spend as much time as he wants on the Fox GOP propaganda network, like he did this morning, painting a rosy picture and telling people that we've "made enormous progress," but a time will come when people like Bush and Negroponte and Cheney will have to be held accountable-- really accountable-- for how badly they have served our country.

No matter how much the dishonest hacks and jackasses-blinded-by-ideological psychosis like Jonathan Chait claim otherwise, they have been wrong about everything and to continue to follow their pigheaded advice is nothing short of suicidal on a societal basis.