Editorial from NJ's Star-Ledger: "The list of failures only grows"

[tilsammans]

Excellent editorial in today's Star-Ledger:

http://www.nj.com/opinion/ledger/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-2/109876909336140.xml

" . . . The list of Bush administration failures in the war on terror and the war in Iraq -- from the Abu Ghraib scandal to the weekend murder by insurgents of 49 newly minted Iraqi soldiers to the lost explosives -- is getting longer. It's difficult to justify, with logic or understanding, the failures of policy and execution that have characterized President Bush's performance in Iraq. A more dismal performance as commander in chief is hard to imagine."

The last line says it all!

[aden_nak]

1. I've been reading the Ledger less and less lately.

Mostly because I read the good columnists online, and the LTTE section usually makes my blood pressure spike. Thanks for pointing this one out to me, though!

[tilsammans]

3. LOL! I know what you mean about the LTTEs!

:puke:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. The Ledger's Editorial Staff...

Seems to have undergone something of a philosophical seachange of late. Which undoubtedly means that Paul Mulshine is just about to get all blowed up.

[tilsammans]

5. About Mulshine . . .

He's often so critical of Dubya -- and yet he plans to vote for him! Or so he says in his column.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. In any case...

Just thank your lucky stars that you aren't lumbered with The Easton Express-Birdcage Liner. We are. It is vomit pressed into pages.

[aden_nak]

7. Mulshine is critical of Bush for not being CONSERVATIVE enough.

Never forget that. ;)

[tilsammans]

8. Very true . . .

I usually disagree with Mulshine's political views. Yet some of the things he says about W are so wicked, I must say I get a kick out of reading them -- especially because they come from a conservative.

I wonder if he lurks here on DU for fodder . . .

[aden_nak]

9. He was a fairweather friend to Bush, but also smart.

Back in the beginning, in the early Iraq days, he was a cheerleader like the rest. But he is smart, and he jumped ship before most others did, so it makes it look like he was ahead of his time, when the truth is that the majorty was just BEHIND the times. :P I think he understood that Bush was going to become VERY unpopular, and didn't want any association. Obviously, for him and his politics, the only solution was to say that Bush isn't conservative enough.

And it is a legit complaint. Bush is NOT very conservative on a lot of issues, except for the social "wedge" issues, which Mulshine seems to care less about anyhow. Maybe that's why he was able to walk away from Bush so early.

[JuniorPlankton]

2. The list of failures can't shrink!

:kick: