Operation What Cause?

Four more US soldiers and one Marine were killed over there, while Nero fiddles Bush "vacations" and avoids uncomfortable situations (even if his minions show a degree of pure crass that's appalling even by Texass standards).

The other day I pointed to Angry Arab's simple question re: Iraq--"what is the mission?"--and, to date, I don't think anyone has managed to deliver a satisfactory answer. It's obvious, for instance, to all but the most deluded, that Iraq will NOT be democratic in any Western sense of the term. That's not a reflection on Middle Easterners, or Arabs, or whoever--it's simply a matter of examining the conditions on the ground. Hell, I'd bet that a sizable portion of "realistic" conservatives (i.e., Kissinger) would happily rehabilitate Saddam Hussein himself if, as a result, Iraq was somehow stabilized.

The WMD canard, as the neo cons themselves admit, was pablum for the masses. Subbsequent "justifications" for war show equal contempt for the public.

And, while Mesopotamia seethes, this country has truly gone off the deep end, with torture not merely being tolerated, but out and out celebrated. As noted above, significant numbers of wingnuts people go out of their way to attack the mother of a slain soldier, because she insists on getting some answers from...a president, i.e., NOT a king, or tribal chief...a president--that is to say, a PUBLIC SERVANT. Conservatives, supposedly the champions of free markets and limited government, hand out no-bid contracts in the billions of dollars while passing legislation to dramatically increase the Federal Government's power.

For what?