"We're making progress"
Um, you'd think on a day when 9 more soldiers--and over a hundred more Iraqis--were killed in Iraq that Shrub would show a little more tact, if not genuine remorse...but no, he's so utterly crass that the proverbial bull in a china shop is a goddamned Talleyrand in comparison:
Bush claims fresh progress in Iraq
President Bush said Tuesday his decision to send more troops to Baghdad is yielding "gradual but important" progress in Iraq. He portrayed himself as steadfast while Democrats squabble over strategy...
"Other members of Congress seem to believe that we can have it all: that we can fight al-Qaida, pursue national reconciliation, initiate aggressive diplomacy and deter Iran's ambitions in Iraq — all while withdrawing from Baghdad and reducing our force levels," Bush said in a speech to the American Legion.
"That sounds good in theory, but doing so at this moment would undermine everything our troops have worked for. There are no shortcuts in Iraq," the president said.
Geez...where to begin? Well, the 9 dead soldiers and hundred or more dead Iraqis sure as hell aren't theoretical. Yesterday they were all living, breathing, thinking humans. Now they're more bloodshed, or, to them, mere statistics. I can picture the boy chimperor acknowledging the dead...then yawning idly, and asking the First Xanax, um, I mean Lady, "So, is there a ball game on tonight?"
Also, Shrub's little laundry list there IS what he or any administration should be doing...but I'm guessing that they've drifted so far from reality's realm that they're completely incapable of engaging in ANY activity that isn't explicity partisan politics. The national interest? You've gotta be kidding. Understanding war as an instrument of foreign policy, as opposed to juvenile game playing with cap guns, out in the back yard? Not a chance in hell.
Which is where the whole damned administration would be going, if there was a hell.
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