Will It Go Round in Circles?*

Yes.

So many turning points, you could call it "spin:"

In March, Boston University professor and former Army colonel Andrew Bacevich told the San Francisco Chronicle why he thought the public had soured on Bush’s Iraq policies. “My view of his problem,” he said, “is that the administration has repeatedly announced that the war had reached a turning point…and each time, that turning point didn’t count.”

Meanwhile, Scotty gets snotty when reminded about Mission Accomplished having become, for them, Operation Entire Roll of Toilet Paper Stuck To Their Shoe...that said, I'd guess plenty of Iraqis and Americans might actually wish that a bit of toilet paper stuck to their shoe was the worst thing...unfortunately, that isn't the case.

Oh, how they hate to be reminded of that. Because, in the 'nut universe, blood orgies are just boatloads of fun...as long as it's not THEIR blood being spilled.

Indeed, they don't even mind a few American bodies, as Rep. Nethercutt of Washington noted a few years back.

Now it's good and clear: what was supposed to be the crowning--literally--achievement is not so much Shock-and-Awe but Dud-and- Fizzle. And like every cocksure driver who's insisted, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that they're "not lost, goddamnit," well, they're gonna bitch and growl at anything short of sullen silence.

But they're still fucking lost. Nothing can change that.