WTF Is It Now?!?

"'CAUSE I WANNA! AN' UNCA DICK SAYS YOU HAVE TO 'CAUSE I'M THE PREZNIT!"
Another chapter of Bombing for Poll Numbers.

For months Crusader Bunnypants has been promoting the policy of Iraqi "regime change" (meaning the ouster of Saddam Hussein). The implication has been that the job will be sure and easy. But the mantra of "regime change" has been glib and vague.

Senior Bush nannies have squabbled over the policy, and their disputes have become public. Top Pentagon brass are so unnerved by the way the Iraq issue is being handled that word is leaking out to the media.

Legislators have yet to be briefed - even in closed hearings - on the reasons why regime change is imperative and why now. For example, does the administration have firm evidence that Iraq has links with terrorists or is handing them biological or chemical weapons?

Unlike the war ten years ago, we will be going it virtually alone, with Europeans skeptical and Arab allies urging us to focus first on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Without the use of Saudi bases and air space, military planners fear the operation will be far more risky.

Without allies, moreover, American taxpayers will be footing the whole war bill - along with a possible spike in oil prices. This, at a time when deficits are rising and the Bush administration won't consider rescinding large tax cuts for the wealthy. - From CommonDreams.org.