The Dog Ate My Constitution

Maybe it's just me, but watching the tortured process (no pun intended) of producing the new Iraqi constitution--which may or may not be a written first draft, and might have been an English-to-Arabic-tanslation--somewhat undercutting the the notion of an august group of selfless framers working in the national interest hammering it out...anyway, I'm betting that the chaos, half-starts, and present text are as much a reflection of Shrubusto as anything: half-assed, slapped together, etc. etc. I'll bet that any number of college papers carrying the name of George W. Bush were equally cobbled together at the last possible moment (including the ones he no doubt farmed out and paid for with his allowance).

Billmon called some passages "borderline gibberish," citing this clause, "All persons are free within their ideology and the practice of their ideological practices," which sort of sounds like the constitutional equivalent of Luca Brasi's speech to Don Corleone--but that's all good for Mr. I'll-Take-Three-More-Weeks-Off even as the military continues to stop-loss folks with a much better concept of "hard work."

The dauphin also took time to argue that antiwar advocates want to weaken the United States--as if his war in Iraq has somehow managed to strengthen us. And it fell to Rummy to deliver the sober news: don't expect THIS round of "light at the end of the tunnel turning the corner" to amount to much of anything in terms of the slow, steady toll of casualties...which has to make you wonder just what the hell it's supposed to be all about at this point.

In the midst of all this you've got Georges Bush and Allen comparing Iraq to Normandy during WWII, while the old "moral equivalent of our founding fathers" statements were pulled out of Centrals American and Asian mothballs by Condi Rice in trying to salvage some sort of passable grade on the whole sorry operation...

Yep--sounds exactly like what you'd expect from this George Bush, based on his entire life history, that is, one slip-shod job after another...

But who's there to bail him out this time?