According to a news article I just read on Yahoo!, Gen. George Casey, the "top US general in Iraq" and soon to be Army Chief of Staff has come out against the President's plan to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq. He says they really only need about half that many and sending more troops than is necessary to get the job done just seems like a bad idea to him. Makes sense to me.
So, W has started a war that nobody else wanted to start for reasons that turned out to be completely fabricated, and now he's going to escalate it against the wishes of the citizens of this country and against the advice of his military commanders. At what point does this kind of "leadership" stop being a Democracy and start being totalitarian? What has to happen before we, as a country, finally wake up and say, "Excuse me, you are doing stupid shit that nobody asked you to do and you're pissing off the rest of the world, so we're going to have to ask you to leave." If you or I started acting like this at our jobs, we'd be fired immediately. Why is this ass-clown allowed to get away with it? Is anybody else afraid of what the rest of the world might do in retaliation for all the dumb shit our "leader" has done? I have to hope that the people of the world realize that he's not really representing us, the citizens of this country. Otherwise we're all coming off as even bigger assholes than we really are. Very big assholes. For what we've got in the white house right now, we might as well have found the biggest, dumbest gorilla we could find, given it a big gun and planted it's ass in the oval office. We would have gotten about the same results.
