WTF Is It Now?!?

An administration in disarray
Neoncons, Cheney in hot stinky doodoo

"While Hurricane Isabel granted President George W. Bush a brief respite this week from the constant stream of bad news coming out of the Middle East, its ravages on Washington and the mid-Atlantic states might pale in comparison to the gathering political storm over his war in Iraq.

"That storm is likely to gain even more force when the public has a chance to absorb this past week’s events, which mostly slid under the media radar as Isabel approached the capital.

"Particularly striking were signs of growing disarray at the highest levels of the administration, such as Bush’s assertion that there was “no evidence” linking Iraq to the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, a statement that appeared at odds both with what Vice President Dick Cheney claimed as recently as last Sunday and what he and some Pentagon officials had been advocating months before the war.

"Even staunch Republican supporters of both the war and Bush are now suggesting that the president’s invasion of Iraq has seriously undermined his war on terrorism.

""If Iraq was not a sanctuary for al-Qaeda before, it certainly is now,” noted Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts." - - an opinion piece in the Manila Times.