Numerology

Is it just me, or is there a stange numerical coincidence to the various examples of "catastrophic success" that define the Bush administration. US forces are claiming to hold 70 percent of Fallujah, while there's the ongoing claim that "75 percent of Al Qaueda 'leaders' have been captured," then there are the oddities people noticed with vote totals in certain Ohio counties--ah, I dunno, maybe it IS just a coincidence...

All kidding aside though, catastrophic success continues in Iraq--regardless of how much of Fallujah we can "control" at present, it really doesn't matter in the scheme of things. The war is not a matter of simply controlling territory, although we aren't even doing that all too well (for every massing of soldiers for an assault on a city like Fallujah, we're opening holes elsewhere big enough to drive a truck bomb through).

And, just to make it clear that Iraq is synonymous with "chaos" these days, we hear that three relatives of Iyad Allawi were kidnapped. I have no love for "president" Allawi--he's nothing but a puppet--but I feel for these three individuals as well as the hundreds if not thousands of others who've been abducted in the New Iraq.

You know, I really wish SOMEONE in the sheeplike media would ask the administration to explain how kidnappings and beheadings--not to mention massive assaults on cities--amount to "progress."

Oh, wait, that's right--it's all in the numbers...