Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Boy, talk about lowering expextations

This is the first paragraph of a story on CNN.
Nightmarish political realities in Baghdad are prompting American officials to curb their vision for democracy in Iraq. Instead, the officials now say they are willing to settle for a government that functions and can bring security.
The fans keeps spinning and the feces keeps flying.
But for the first time, exasperated front-line U.S. generals talk openly of non-democratic governmental alternatives, and while the two top U.S. officials in Iraq still talk about preserving the country's nascent democratic institutions, they say their ambitions aren't as "lofty" as they once had been.

"Democratic institutions are not necessarily the way ahead in the long-term future," said Brig. Gen. John "Mick" Bednarek, part of Task Force Lightning in Diyala province, one of the war's major battlegrounds.
Wow! 5 years and 3500+ Americans dead and many thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead and wounded, the country and its economy totally trashed, and just so we can replace Saddam Hussein with The New Improved Saddam Hussein!

Georgie, you should have stayed in Baseball.

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