WTF Is It Now?!?

Familiar, haunting words
I bet Hitler said "let's roll" too...

'It is darkly familiar to what we have been hearing here, when for the first time in American history we became all the things we ever hated and invaded another country: the address by Adolph Hitler to the Reichstag, Sept. 1, 1939.

'On that night, Hitler used this dry, unimaginative language to start a world war that was to kill 60 million, and they stopped counting. Wednesday night, George Bush, after speech after speech of this same dry, flat, banal language, started a war for his country, and we can only beg the skies to keep it from spreading into another world war.' - Jimmy Breslin.




Fait Accompli
'Hawkish TV pundits argued that hostilities needed to commence before the weather, the WEATHER, mind you, made war uncomfortable. Next they rationalized that no matter how misguided a scheme conquering Iraq had been to begin with - this is roughly Gen. Wesley Clark's position - American forces could not withdraw without a terrible loss of credibility. In schoolyard terms, Junior couldn't risk being laughed at. More recently, experts have taken to discounting a pre-emptive strike by Iraq because Saddam has no offensive capacity. Do they even listen to themselves?' - Gene Lyons.