WHO FUCKED UP THE WAR? VOINOVICH SAYS IT WAS BUSH-- BUT HE STILL VOTES FOR EVERY SINGLE LAME BUSH SCHEME INVOLVING IRAQ

While Harry Reid has the cots brought into the Senate for a one night demonstration of Republican obstructionism that is likely to go nowhere and while Pelosi still insists that impeachment-- clearly the only way out of Iraq-- is still off the table, and while George Voinovich-- who still hasn't been able to muster the balls Olympia Snowe has in voting against the Bush Iraq agenda of endless war-- warns Rove that Bush's legacy may be in trouble if he doesn't withdraw from Iraq (actually saying Bush "fucked up the war"), Peter Pace sent up a trail balloon today for the Regime saying that they plan on escalating the war even further. Like who didn't see that coming?

Marine Gen. Peter Pace revealed that he and the chiefs of the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force are developing their own assessment of the situation in Iraq, to be presented to Bush in September. That will be separate from the highly anticipated report to Congress that month by Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander for Iraq.

The Joint Chiefs are considering a range of actions, including another troop buildup, Pace said without making any predictions. He called it prudent planning to enable the services to be ready for Bush's decision.

Most professional military men already know Bush is a vicious little prick who will turn on them in an instant and blame them for everything that goes wrong-- or end their careers if he thinks they're being disloyal to his Regime's ideological diktats. Dan Froomkin laid it out beautifully in his Washington Post column this morning:

President Bush says that he should be trusted on military issues because he listens to his commanders. But he has a tendency to celebrate his generals when they're providing him political cover-- then stick a knife in their backs when they're no longer of any use to him.

Last week, Bush rejected any blame for the chaos that ensued in Iraq after the March 2003 invasion. So whose fault was it? Bush pointed the finger at Gen. Tommy Franks, the Central Command chief at the time. "My primary question to General Franks was, do you have what it takes to succeed? And do you have what it takes to succeed after you succeed in removing Saddam Hussein? And his answer was, yes," Bush said.

Bush brought in David BetrayUs because he's a right wing Republican hack with his eyes on political office and because Bush knew he is a true believer in the same discredited ideological approach to Iraq that he and the other dead enders are. "When virtually all of Bush military line of command, including the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff, opposed his 'surge' proposal late last year, Bush responded not by listening, but by removing the top two commanders responsible for Iraq and replacing them with more amenable leaders, including Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus."

But everything about Iraq is not all doom and gloom. We just got an e-mail from Fred, the DWT correspondent semi-embedded with Halliburton in Baghdad. The Greed Zone is buzzin' this week with news from Halliburton's KBR division that in 10 days new yoga classes for beginners will commence. Photo above courtsey of KBR, Baghdad.