This Iraqi Intrusion is being to smell more and more like Vietnam.

Not in body counts and the like, although the deaths are being to come in with great regularity. No, it is watching an Administration trying to spin away the obvious. We lose five soldiers (actually six since a Marine was not included in the count until the following day) in an explosion, and four "civilians" - former Delta Force and Seals working as private security guards - are gundowned, burned and dragged about the streets (or hung from a bridge). Four thousand Marines hunkered down in their fortress just a few miles away and didn't even bother to collect the ashes. We'll get those murderers, Bremer says. It was only a few extremists.

Here is what Maureen Dowd had to say about it:

"The president did not want to mar the gay mood of his fund-raiser here Wednesday night, so he did not mention the ghoulish slam dance in Falluja. As The Times's David Sanger wrote, "In the Bush campaign, casualties are something to be alluded to obliquely, if at all." In the Bush alternative universe of eternal sunshine, where the environment is not toxic and Medicare is not a budget buster, body bags and funerals just muddy the picture."

The single most horrendous day since the so-called end of the war (I'm ignoring the larger number killed in the 'copter crash last year), and the President has nothing to say about it. Like, it never happened.

Bush is a piece of work. Disagree with him, and you are trashed. I hear that the Administration has already set loose the rumors that Clarke is gay (unmarried, etc.), as if that somehow makes his story less credible. What it does say about this administration and Republicans in general are that they are incredibly homophobic.

This President and his attack dogs, his ignorant asses on his cabinet, and the GOP in general needs to go the way of the do-do. How could the party of Abraham Lincoln sink so low. This is the party of William Jennings Bryan now more than Lincoln. Ignorance prevails.

In my heart, I know that God is no more on our side than he is on any other country. But I'd have real issues with him if I ever found out he was responsible for this administration being in power.