"A pact that Bush and his supporters made with the devil."

[AlinPA]

Pitt Post-Gazette article by Dan Simpson ex-ambassador. This is strong stuff that would not be said last year. Hubris is catching up with Rove & Co.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05117/494719.stm

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.....Bush a lame-duck president and is no longer paying much attention to him, or to what he says. If that is true it is probably bad for the country because he is still around as leader until 2008, almost no matter what.

The other possible explanation is much harder. The argument runs like this. It is clear with the collapse of the arguments of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, a link to al-Qaida, more oil for the United States and a new Iraq as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East, that the real reason for the Iraq war was that President George W. Bush needed to be a war president to get the second term his father didn't get. Thus, the war. The trouble was that, with more than 1,500 Americans and thousands of Iraqis now dead and the war nowhere near over, that has turned out to be a pact that Bush and his supporters made with the devil...............It is becoming, instead, a nightmare of a hard-to-end war abroad and economic disaster at home, featuring high casualties and financial costs, no job creation and inflation.

To pursue the image, the devil is now presenting his bill and he wants your soul........and the policies one has pursued have had as even an unintentional result the death of 1,500 of one's own people and thousands more, reflection on what one has done and prayer could cause one to lose one's place on the page.

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edited title.

[livetohike]

1. Good editorial

and it is going to be a long, long 3.5 more years. I am hoping that the 2006 elections result in more Democrats elected. It is going to take a miracle to reverse how screwed up Bush has made things.

[carnie_sf]

2. Still hoping

for impeachment