(SMH)Bush's mourning-after blues

[GregW]

Wow! SCATHING article on Dumbya in today's Sydney Morning Herald:

It is nearly five months since George Bush declared the war in Iraq over. But the body bags keep bringing his troops home and the President's status is plummeting as a result, Andrew West writes.

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The reality is that the George Bush who will arrive in Australia next month is a shrunken figure, suffering plummeting opinion poll ratings and skyrocketing unemployment at home, and mockery abroad. His domestic opponents characterised last week's speech to the United Nations, in which he sought its financial, military and civilian aid for the rebuilding of Iraq - although without relinquishing any US control - as "begging".

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But most of all, Bush is haunted by 167 names - the names of the US soldiers killed in Iraq since May 1, the day hostilities officially ended. That figure now exceeds the number - 139 - killed during the war. Another 1616 US troops have been wounded.

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Even the mythology of the war is unravelling. It turns out that Private Jessica Lynch, who was captured by Iraqis, was neither shot nor stabbed by Iraqis but was suffering a broken leg and arm. And far from being rescued in a heroic mission, US troops walked into a completely unguarded Iraqi hospital, where the medical staff had donated their own blood to her.

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[pansypoo53219]

1. unfortunately

THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN PAPER. and it is our soldiers in those bags.

[calimary]

2. Like it so far - got a link?

Looks like more people are waking up. Too bad that's happening overseas more than here.

[cliss]

3. Good. Let's get those

Tasmanian Devils really going. I think that they hung in there because of Jolly Ole England and all that rot, don't you know, be loyal to the Queen and all that nonsense.

It's becoming more and more apparent that the FEW countries who were willing to support (in theory and talk, certainly not in $$bucks and bodies) this military escapade, were really going against their own consitutents.

But, all things do come to an end, and these jolly blokes have to face their own people, at some point. There ARE re-elections. They have all GOT to be sweaty about this; perspiration building on their upper lip and under their arms.

Australians are pretty independent, aren't they?

[grasswire]

4. isn't it amusing...

...that a Tasmanian says "No way, Jose"? That cracked me up.

And the SMH is fabulous. They broke the PNAC story.

[nostamj]

5. "Bush is haunted"

I don't believe this for a second. annoyed maybe. but not 'haunted'

that would require feelings, humanity, compassion. those deaths are a political liability that must be handled by Rove pressuring the 'press' to report HAPPY IRAQI NEWS.

those deaths are a political liability that must be handled by Rove pressing the theme that reporting BAD IRAQI NEWS is treason and hurts the troops.

not one hug. not one.