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While corporate media starlets chatter about our latest national crisis...the Bible and Keith Ellison...many of us are still stuck on the war in Iraq. Reports on the transition from half a dozen dead bodies a day to dozens (or hundreds) have been a seamless effort, right up there with unplugging camera equipment in New Orleans` Ninth Ward. According to the fickle media, it`s Holiday Time now. Might snow and merchandisers are excited about the gadgetfest. A minute and a half on the war, seven on Danny DeVito`s drinking.
I`m struck by the asinine tightrope talk. "He`ll have to walk a narrow line" or "She`ll have to position herself in the middle." That`s where the political fanclub is on the war? Right in the middle? Maybe we should bomb them some more, maybe not? You mean this is the sort of issue that favors wishy-washy positions and tepid responses? Like we have so much time to fiddle around with this thing that we can postpone a correction? That`s the kind of BS that usually percolates up from folks whose kid still has both his legs and no hellish nighmares. Seems to me, a good chunk of Americans have reached their limit in "blood and treasure" and deserve to have their views represented. Same "with us or against us" but emanating from a new frontier.
During Friday`s Washington Journal, Brian Lamb read a long list of Iraq Study Group members. Very few Mideast experts or folks with military experience. A gazillion names....lots of buisiness people, lots of talking heads. It sounded like another bloated commission with members from other bloated commissions. Not a quick fix but an oscillating fan designed to blow cool air onto George Bush`s hot seat. Enough with the gimmicks already. I want a real life action figure, someone who has a plan to exit Iraq and the principled reasons to back that up. Let someone else mess around with pretending Bush can do something to save face. A few still photos taken at Walter Reed, an Iraq War expense clock, an aerial photo of what`s left of Baghdad, a few photos of conveyor belt casket homecomings and a picture of Osama should end this nightmare. Pretending this death and mayhem, this violence and horror is acceptable another minute is unconscionable. Our leaders must take a solid, unwavering stand and kick George W. Bush downstairs to the dungeon of complete, utter incompetence.
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