[Matchett-PI]

"Unfortunately Feith’s name is mud now too so whatever he says is immediately discredited by the usuals too."

There are only two VIABLE political parties; the Stupid Party (A Casper Milquetoast) and the Evil Party (A Criminal Enterprise).

Unfortunately, people of noble character only have a chance of having their voices heard in the Stupid Party whose mainly well-meaning, but clueless, wonky majority never sees the sucker punches coming from the street fighters.

When you're caught off guard / flat-footed, and on the defensive ALL the time, you are incapable of mounting an EFFECTIVE offense, and the ignoble base of the Criminal Enterprise has free reign to demonize and take all our best people out of action.

Fill in the name of any of the "good guys" on our side in place of John Bolton's name in the quote below, and you have an accurate description of what happens, and will continue to happen, as long as "We the People" allow it:

"The U.N. ejected John Bolton in the same way a healthy person ejects a toxin from his system. For he was toxic to their evil." ~ Gagdad Bob

[ClaireSolt]

Most of the criticism of the Iraq war is nitpicking an amazingly successful operation. I waqs listening to Rush's replacement rant on about the defects of ethanol, yesterday. His gripes are plausible unless you can imagine another scenario. What would he be saying, if Iran and Syria had thrown a million men on two fronts against our invasion of Iraq and added an oil boycott for good measure? Ethanol would seem like liquid titanium, then.

. You can't just measure something against a perfectly good standard where Abu Gharib seems like a catastrophe, you also have to contemplate how it measures against a worst case scenario, and against that standard our Iraq war has been almost a cake walk.