Wow. Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself, but who would have thought that it would take this little time for our Commander-in-Chief's splendid little Mideast adventure to begin to unravel? Did he and the rest of the junta actually think that there would be no consequences to bullshitting the American people into a completely unneccessary war? That tattered 9-11 flag they've been wrapping themselves in doesn't cover as much as it used to, and although my fellow countrymen by and large don't mind the little white lies that politicos tell them on a day-to-day basis, they don't like being banked on as dupes, which is exactly what the White House and the Pentagon's strategy has been for getting this Iraqi war on. Now that the good folks of Middle America - especially the families of the servicemen and women that are getting picked off like sitting ducks every day in downtown Baghdad and other sweltering hostile locales - are beginning to get wise to the fact that they've been played, the President may be in real trouble at last. This isn't just good news for the Democrats, who up until this tipping point in the American consciousness have been showing less spine than that giant blob which washed up on the shores of South America the other week, but it's good news for America, despite what the asshole conservative talking heads say. America needs to wake the hell up. We just rolled a defenseless country for no good reason, and in the process have sundered decades-long alliances, undermined the fundamental tenets of international law (which, mind you, we helped establish at the end of World War Two to prevent just the sort of idiocy our executive branch has perpetrated in Iraq) and - perhaps worst of all - squandered the good will of the entire world that we'd garnered in the immediate aftermath of the September 11th attacks. There must be a reckoning of this horrible, horrible thing that we've done, and for the first time it looks like that there might actually be one. And that restores my faith in this country.