STATE DENIAL

Cost of the war has risen to nearly $2 billion per week in Iraq, so continuing to 'stay the course' will mean at least $104 billion per year most probably not including the finance costs-- Walmart has to turn over one hugely heavy load of Chinese schlock to maintain Beijing capability of lending us back our own money so we can maintain an illusionist denial of what underlies our truly anxious condition ....bankruptcy-- Failure as in grandiose disaster now appears ordained in Iraq but the Republican repo-men scurrying in desperation to hold their majority in congress defy the mountingly negative facts tarnishing the fatal glow of Mission Accomplished-- The demi-crats cannot muster a convincing critique and are even less inspiring with their unuttered alternative-- Bush borrows a page from the Clinton playbook dining between enemies Karzai of Afghanistan and Mussharraf of Pakistan portraying himself now as the paternal peacemaker and the press showcased it-- Pakistani leader Musharraf has essentially been militarily compelled to throw in the towel against the Taliban/Al Quaeda insurgency sanctuaried in the wildly tribal lands of the Waziristan province bordering Afghanistan while the mayor of Kabul Karzai demands more troops and military action in the region to stanch the debilitated security of his own installed government in the face of growing ominous instability-- In the middle of this photo op luncheon word comes Thailand has fallen to a military coup-- The world order is in a state of dissolution--

Misconstruing the National Intel assessment to portray himself and his neocon foreign policy in the ME as a success while riven Iraq continues barrelling down a boulevard rife with uncivil and sectarian butchery, Bush and his Def-Sec Rumsfeld strive to contain the malignant fact that American soldiers sustain more than 800 insurgent attacks per week-- No matter what anyone claims this is not progress-- The Intel claims the Iraq war/occupation increases Jihadism worldwide faster than we can possibly defeat/diminish it even as we require our undermanned underarmored underequipped and now underbudgeted troops to stretch themselves above and beyond the normal expectant call of duty-- Bush struts afresh from co-opting his dog and pony Repo-men rebellion into supplying him with seven years of backdated retro-active exoneration/immunity from possible prosecution of war crimes by simply redefining his actions already taken as legal-- The Pesident of the United States arguing for torture-- groveling for his right to order torture via some stylized semantic pretense -- Torture or its sanitized blur 'alternative interrogation technique' has certainly contributed greatly to the expansion of the insurgency (Believing otherwise is denial of common sense) and diminished greatly whatever confidence ordinary citizens of Iraq once displayed for America-- In fact to do so, to even demand from his repo-cronies backdated war crime immunity is tantamount to private acknowledgement of 'victory' lost or at minimum remissibly unattainable-- His public charade of progress argues victory will be difficult but attainably nearer if we just stay the course eventually meets with facts on the ground -- Why would a leader exposed to the apparition of potential war criminality seek specious cover retroactively from a maleable congress if he truly believes there is victory and success impending the shortening horizon??-- The victorious leader rarely if ever gets tried for war crimes-- Of course should he fall quite short of victory the adventure dissolves into everyman for himself and God against all-- British ally and accomplice Jack Straw reads the situation in Iraq in a word.......... "Dire!!"--

Bob Woodward crafty D.C. insider and opportunist in his new book reveals the advisory role the infamous Doktor K. Henry Peace-with(out true)-Honor Kissinger has played for Bush and Rumsy as the occupation continued to sour supposedly telling them to never even entertain bringing home any troops-- Is he seeking to redeem the victory Vietnam denied him??-- Did he buck Bush up with references to his Churchillian alter-ego?-- When it began and how large a role Kissinger (the man who claims he successfully bombed North Vietnam back to the bargaining table allowing the U.S. to surrender and go home) has played is difficult to know without reading the book which apparently won't be released until next week but speculation may argue that rumors of Cheney's lost clout may incline toward coincidence-- Woodward's tidbit is sure to spawn conjecture that Bush has been exhibiting publicly some of the testy retorts usually ascribed to Richard Nixon during his final days minus of course Nixon's uncontestable brilliance in political and foreign affairs-- That the administration sought advice though from a man who spent most of his later life penning glorious tomes on diplomatic posturing that sought self-rectification for his culpable role in the national nightmare of our failure in Vietnam shows the desperate degree to which Bush, the man who campaigned he would restore integrity to a White House soiled by rock-star Bill Clinton, will go to deflect or postpone the moment of difficult truth he must like all of us someday face... in this bizarre fantasy realm farther and farther removed from the heady and surreal days of his falsely promoted 'Mission Accomplished' rooster strut down the hollywood-media-enhanced politically-commandeered aircraft carrier in the twilight's last gleaming hour-- It was a disingenuous construct then and remains so today-- No magic will intercede to save the disconsolate expiration of his unaccomplished hegemony in Iraq-- Having once entertained such a wild chance success is no longer an option and hasn't been for a lot longer than the real dead-enders will concede-- A veritable litany for lack of a better term of tangential American foreign policy failures litter the world following in the wake of Iraq's dismemberment producing more and more contagion our overstretched capability finds insufficient strength/intellect to stanch-- Those brave enough to unflinchingly face this veritable ignominy are shuffled aside or silenced-- The yes men rise and intone 'There is still time' over and over and for a time he will grasp at their straw...half-fully or half-emptily irrelevant he drinks from the leaking glass-- Fired-up briefly he will embarassingly accuse his meek and mealy opposition of treason and cowardice-- In his fever of defeat he will be told 'Denial is not a river in Egypt it is the river of blood staying the course through Iraq' but he will not hear-- Deaf to the future to himself and his army he has become a danger-- No wonder the light of our beacon and its place in the world has so diminished itself under this fracturing regime-- From their ashes our phoenix must rise-- Such work..... immense!!!!!!