Reading notes

Those are good kids that we’re sending into the shooting gallery called Iraq, and unless you have the conviction of a Bush or a Rumsfeld or a Bechtel or a Halliburton, you have to be nursing the sick feeling that each death is a tragic waste, and that this conflict is as much of a fool’s errand as the war in Vietnam. …

Why are these kids dying?

The United States was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. But instead of using all the means available to hunt down and destroy Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the Bush administration became obsessed with the ouster of Saddam Hussein and the takeover of Iraq.

That is a very peculiar ordering of priorities. …

The credibility of the Bush administration is approaching meltdown. The White House won’t level with the American people on the cost of the war, or the number of troops that are really needed, or the amount of taxpayer money that is being funneled to the politically connected corporations that have been given carte blanche for the reconstruction.

An inescapable corollary:
The credibility of supporters of the Bush administration is approaching meltdown, too.

I wonder if approaching meltdown is accurate. For me, if I’m completely honest instead of playing hem-and-haw wordgames, Bush Administration credibility is really more like the Klondike bars in my freezer three days into the week-long power outage. In theory they were still edible — there’s still room for repentance and redemption — but in reality, nope — I’m past hoping. Time’s up.

[via Left Coaster]