655,000 dead in Iraq and Sanctions in NK

N (u) K (e)!

If anyone wants to know how I felt in Tyler, during meetings, it was well represented by the way Bush obviously felt during his press conference today.

655,000 dead in Iraq since we start "fighting them over there". Boy, I'll bet the Iraqis are going to start converting to our humble and kind version of Christianity... let's just send them the Republican Evangelical Right... and "fight them over there!"

John Hopkins has got some methods all right. 655,000 dead, mostly supported by death certificates. Let's face it, it's a civil war, and it's only civil war and not Geonocide because the Sunnis and Shiite are competing with death tolls.

Was the Foley scandal politically motivated? Was the Hopkin's report politically motivated? Was Bob Woodward's book politically motivated? How about Baker's report waiting until after the election? Is that Politically motivated? Is the Baker report going to urge a new direction (changing the damn course)? Probably. How about the new budget for the decimated U.S. Army? Is that being put to congress after the election motivated by politics?

When Sunnis and Shiite, who once lived in any neighborhood they wanted to in Baghdad, decide to move to segregated communities, for fear that they will be killed otherwise, it's Civil War. What's worse, this means that the civil war is just getting started. When the sides are drawn, when the civilians have moved to their neighborhoods (shiite on the West side of the river and Shunis on the east side) this will mark the real skurmish. This is when shelling can start. This is when they fight over the oil.

Oh boy. This is when we need one of those bumper stickers like republicans had for Clinton, the ones that said, "Don't Blame me, I didn't vote for him." And what does this mean anyway? That we're allowed to blame those who voted for Bush?

Blood is on their hands. Blood is on Kerry's hands. Blood is on Hillary's hands.

This conflict will be one of those chapters that the school children will grow up not knowing as much as their parents, because the conservative history books, the ones written be the geniuses who don't believe in science and evolution (thought we got through that era in the Snopes trial), will play it down. But this conflict is a turning point in our country's history, much more even than Vietnam. The war machine has gotten out of control. Eisenhower is rolling in his grave. He's blaming the electorate for letting a dumb draft dodger go to war.