I absolutely love the ending of todays NY Times editorial regarding the quest for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

"This is clearly an uncomfortable question for the Bush administration. Yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Times editors. Asked whether Americans would have supported this war if weapons of mass destruction had not been at issue, Mr. Powell said the question was too hypothetical to answer. Asked if he, personally, would have supported it, he smiled, thrust his hand out and said, "It was good to meet you."

I can absolutely picture it!!!!

I can't believe they're now resorting to this tired tactic...

Mr. Rumsfeld did not mention any of the domestic critics by name. But he suggested that those who have been critical of the administration's handling of the war in Iraq and its aftermath might be encouraging American foes to believe that the United States might one day walk away from the effort, as it has in past conflicts.

From the NY Times today

The River Cities' Reader Online

Very interesting stuff here...

It's so nice to see the cold face of reality jump right into the Bush White House and interfere with their misguided sense of destiny and world changing. They have had a lot of fun being unaccountable to the whole rest of the world, including the US Congress, but now they are forced to come begging for more moolah and help from other nations. I know that the President feels degraded by this and probably feels that nobody else is properly understanding of the great work he is doing. The big danger is that if you fuck up a baseball team the result is a losing season - being the President of the United States and fucking up means you are fucking up the world.