Iraq is lost. Tell Little Lord Velcro Shoes his presidency is a failure.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14rich.html

[titoresque]

1. thats a good one!

Hadn't heard that one before LOL!! "little lord velcro shoes" LMAO!

[pinto]

2. This is a great Op/Ed piece from Rich (note - NY Times reg required)

here's a snip

Op-Ed Columnist
Someone Tell the President the War Is Over

By FRANK RICH
Published: August 14, 2005

LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?

A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush's handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend's Newsweek poll - a match for the 32 percent that approved L.B.J.'s handling of Vietnam in early March 1968. (The two presidents' overall approval ratings have also converged: 41 percent for Johnson then, 42 percent for Bush now.) On March 31, 1968, as L.B.J.'s ratings plummeted further, he announced he wouldn't seek re-election, commencing our long extrication from that quagmire.

But our current Texas president has even outdone his predecessor; Mr. Bush has lost not only the country but also his army. Neither bonuses nor fudged standards nor the faking of high school diplomas has solved the recruitment shortfall. Now Jake Tapper of ABC News reports that the armed forces are so eager for bodies they will flout "don't ask, don't tell" and hang on to gay soldiers who tell, even if they tell the press.

The president's cable cadre is in disarray as well. At Fox News Bill O'Reilly is trashing Donald Rumsfeld for his incompetence, and Ann Coulter is chiding Mr. O'Reilly for being a defeatist. In an emblematic gesture akin to waving a white flag, Robert Novak walked off a CNN set and possibly out of a job rather than answer questions about his role in smearing the man who helped expose the administration's prewar inflation of Saddam W.M.D.'s. (On this sinking ship, it's hard to know which rat to root for.)

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3. Frank Rich is the second coming

I read Richard Clark's book right after the election, when I couldn't find any explanation for this "administration", and it helped me get it that these neocons cave conned everyone, and that eventually, the con man gets exposed.

That happened with this article.
Amen