AUTOPSY

Did mr. Buckley provide Mr. Bush a rationale for withdrawal ? Did mr. Bush receive it? Is our iraq adventure for all original intents and purposes whatever they may have once been a done deal? Is Mr. Bush in the denial phase? If so, what will the anger stage provide? A massive tactical bombing of Iran to deflect from the iraq failure? To rally once again the american people around a beleaguered president in a time of war--a new war?--Iran with its so far nonexistent nuclear weapons is now the newest most threatening menace to America?-- Forget all the missing soviet suitcase nukes Iran is the next dragon to slay? The next inception of radical chaos and murder in the middle east ?-- With the Iraq war now costing nearly 20 billion bucks a month where will the additional moolah come from? Who will buy our bonds to finance such folly? Using militarily nearly 450 thousand barrels of oil per day in Iraq where will the additional petro resources be found? If the iranians are attacked will they shut down the oil spigots and punish the U.S. indirectly by crimping the economies of China and Japan? Having curtailed 15% of it's oil purchases from Iran recently are the Japanese saying a massive bombardment of Iran is a fait accompli?-- Did the iranian propostion to set up a futures bourse trading oil for euros play a large role in the most recent saber rattling by the Bush and Bolton gang?-- Didn't Saddam trade oil for euros briefly before the invasion of Iraq? Didn't Mr. Chavez propose an oil for euro trade before an ultimately failed coup attempt briefly unseated him? With many mainline old school conservatives disassociating themselves from the political lifesupport system is Mr. Bush man enough to admit failure? Don't we already know most of these answers already?-- Will the American people wake up?-- Will they recognize just how precarious the times are that try our souls?