Yellow Dog

From the Chicago Sun-Times:

"One reads in the papers that the Pentagon expects the war in Iraq to continue till 2010. Donald Rumsfeld will not guarantee that it will be over by 2009. How many dead and maimed Americans by then? How many sad obituaries? How many full pages in the papers with pictures of all the casualties?

Why?

The reasons change: weapons of mass destruction, war on terror, freedom and democracy for the people of Iraq, American credibility. All are deceptions. This cockamamie and criminally immoral war was planned before the Sept. 11 attack in which Iraq was not involved. It has nothing to do with the war on terror. American-style freedom and democracy in Arab countries are hallucinations by men and women like Paul Wolfowitz and Condi Rice whose contribution to the war is writing long memos -- Republican intellectuals with pointy heads."

No peace on Earth during unjust war

Here's news of more daily crap in Bushworld: Bush is planning to weaken environmental regulations (from 1976) to allow more mining, logging, and drilling in U.S. Forests. He's catering, of course, to the timber and paper industries. That's Bush, taking "conserve" out of "conservative."

CBS News | Bush To Take Axe To Forest Rules | December 22, 2004 13:30:36

Thanks to Bush, there will be a lot of families who will not be having a merry Christmas.


Yahoo! News - Attack on U.S. Base in Iraq Leaves 20 Dead

This must be what Bush means by the "catastrophic success" in Iraq:

From CBS News:

"Radical youths from Europe and the Arab world are training at insurgent camps in Iraq, Europe's anti-terror chief said Tuesday, warning that instability there and elsewhere in the world is making "it easier for terrorists to hide and train.

De Vries said terrorist violence in Iraq could spread to the whole region if the U.S.-led coalition fails to put down the insurgency that's attracting Islamic radicals from outside Iraq.

'Al Qaeda has in a sense revamped itself so that it is no longer only an organization but it has simultaneously become a kind of movement inspiring individuals and loose small networks,' he said. 'So there has been, as is sometimes being said, a kind of franchising of the message of al Qaeda which makes it a more complex phenomenon' and more difficult to handle."

Not only were Iraq and the 9-11 attacks unrelated, but now there's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy in which Iraq is actually increasing al Qaeda recruitment. Somewhere, Osama bin Laden is proclaiming, "Mission Accomplished!"

CBS News | Iraq Called Terror Breeding Ground | December 16, 2004 08:00:19