Serprahze, serprahze, serprahze...

The WaPo reports that commanders in Iraq say need more troops. How conveeeeenient that this minor detail never surfaced before the election.

But wait, I thought we had "broken the backs of the insurgents" only last week...

That giant sucking sound you hear isn't NAFTA, it's the the disaster in Iraq that will more likely than not require that the draft be reinstated. Who will be the next Joseph Heller to write the Iraqi version of Catch-22? Think your spouse, sibling's or child's unit was coming home for Christmas? Think again.

What is really sad though is that all of this could have been avoided had Dubya had the sense that his father had and listened to Colin Powell. Instead, he listened to the war criminal faction of the administration; Cheney, Rumsfeld and his incompetent "work wife".

All through the campaign season, fearless leader insisted that if the commanders on the ground asked for more troops, they would get them... but they hadn't asked yet. What a crock of shit. They had been screaming that there were inadequate troops all along but the messages either never made it to, or never left, central command. It simply wouldn't have looked good for "Big" to have this news hit the fan during the campaign.

But now, with the election behind him, Dubya can kick back on his new yacht and sip near beer, or whatever it is that former alcoloholics drink, while the middle-east goes to hell in a hand-basket of his making.

If there's any consolation to the election results, it is that Dubya has to clean up the mess he made. My worst fear though is that he will only make things worse as has been signalled by his cabinet appointments (firing the one member of his cabinet with half a brain and a conscience, and replacing him with the most incompetent member of his staff) and administration statements about Iran which seems eerily similar to the drumbeat of messaging about Iraq and WMD in the run up to the war.