Bummer!. The Red Sox have gone into a slump on the road. Next they play NY at Boston. That will be interesting. NY now leads the league.
An old Texan labeled Bush a "Post turtle". Asked to explain he said, "if your driving down a country road and see a turtle balanced on top of a fence post you know he didn't get there by himself, he doesn't belong there, and he doen't know what to do while he's up there, and you just want to help the dumb shit get down."

At last Colin Powell has spoken out to the effect that he voiced his concerns about going into Iraq, also expressed to General Frank, Rumsfeld and Bush that the troop strength should be far greater then planned. Rice claims she doesn't remember what all Powell said but that the Pres. listened to everyone and then made his decision.
It is apparent from other facts that the decision had been made long before that. All the discussion and going to the U.N. was merely a formality endured with mounting impatience. Hopefully the President's abysmally low confidence ratings will forestall any continuation of the grand design to remold the Middle East into a democracy. As Thom Friedman said, "better a nuclear Iran than another Rumsfeld run war". Friedman also said that the best way to deal with Iran is to explicitly state that if they or any proxy were to harm another country with a nuclear weapon they would be subject to devastating nuclear retaliation. We have dealt with a Russian threat of "mutually a assured destruction" for close to fifty years and things have gone along fairly well. Little desert kingdoms hardly pose a real threat. Let us be realistic. Of course the rhetoric is about Nuclear threats, the reality is about regime change. The naive notion that democratic elections produce democracy has been dissproved in Palestine with Hamas, an avowedly belligerent group, winning an election