The Iraq situation is a catastrophe

Just read this e-mail, which was written by Wall Street Journal reporter Farnaz Fassahi. Is the road to hell paved with good intentions, or with makeshift landmines planted by youngsters? Is the United States finally ready to throw off the shackles of its neoconservative overlords and return our foreign policy to what it used to be - a mixture of strength, diplomacy, and a healthy dose of realpolitik? We all know that Bush doesn't read the papers, and I'd be willing to bet that he doesn't even watch the news on "the TV screens." So is it too much to ask that the leader of the free world get some information from a source that is not within his chain of command? Is it too much to ask that the President pick up a newspaper. Heck, even the NY Post or Washington Times will do. Wall Street Journal isn't too pinko, last I checked. In any event, in the face of this disaster -a disaster that was caused by bad planning by the President, all Bush can say is that it's "hard work." No shit, sherlock. No one ever said it'd be non-alcoholic wine & roses. The neoconservatives - the imbecile utopians who thought that Iraq would be a cakewalk in which we'd be greeted as liberators, the ones who thought that a free Iraq would somehow spark a domino effect of liberal democracy throughout the middle east, the ones who, more than anything, thought that violent imposition of democracy on Israel's neighbors would somehow be good for Israel... ...are well on their way to turning Americans into Israelis. Obviously, this comment has nothing to do with religion, but with the reality of security. The neocons won't be satisfied until the plague of suicide bombings makes its way to our shores. They have already turned our servicemen and women in Iraq, and any and all foreign aid workers, reporters, and contractors into suicide bombing victims and victims of kidnappings and beheadings. For this country to get back on the right track - a rational, realistic, and reasonable foreign policy - the neoconservatives who got us into this mess must be held to account. They must, quite frankly, be run out of office, power and influence. They should never darken the halls of government again. The neoconservative movement is the most insidious danger to American values and democracy today. It must be defeated. It must be discredited.