Reply #455: Ed Naha: 'Reality check'

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You'd never know it by watching network and cable news, but we're still involved in two wars that are, for all practical purposes, going down the crapper. Thank God "The Runaway Bride" is still planning on exchanging marital vows, because now a few hundred more armchair shrinks are free to gas-bag about her mental state 24/7, thus keeping her at the top of the vaudeville review sometimes called the news. And if the wedding goes bust? Well, we still have Michael Jackson's circus to entertain us.

As I write this, 1594 American troops have been killed in Iraq. 180 American troops have been slain in Afghanistan. Democracy is on the march…or on the run, as it were.

A little over a week ago, at a press conference, George W. Bush stated that we're making "really good progress" in Iraq. Two days before the press conference, General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the Iraqi insurgents were as strong as ever. Since Bush's happy talk, 250 Iraqis have been killed via suicide bombings, assassinations and gunfire. I guess you could call that "really good progress," in that nobody was beheaded or set on fire or died a death of a thousand cuts.

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If you’re winning a war, you don’t lie.

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