Iraq Study Group? How about Detention...

"Way forward. A new way forward. The way forward to Victory. Victory. Can't have defeat, must have victory." The image of George W. walking the White House halls alone in the middle of the night babbling his inane drivel to the paintings of dead preseidents is almost too much to bear. The Fuehrer is in his bunker and the Red Army is at the Brandenberg Gate. As Bush waits to deliver his "way forward" until after the New Year - maybe Santa will put the plan in his Christmas stocking - he sends more brave Americans to die into the hell pit he created. "Legacy, gotta save my legacy. I'll be dead, up in heaven with the lord, but I'll be vindicated!" Since it's clear that Baker's Dozen hasn't come up with a strategy the Fuehrer approves of, he's going shopping for that 2nd, 3rd, 4th, opinion. At least until he finds one that'll agree with him. That however is going to be a problem as the yes men are growing fewer and farther away. The neocons have deserted him, Wolfowitz is at the world bank, Bremmer's vanished, Tennet's vaporized, Franks' blitzed, Rhummy's kaput, Cheney is sidelined, Moma Karen Hughs is silent, Condi is all he has left - but no one is listening to her any way.

The pictures of Hitler sending the Children's brigade off to the Russian front becomes a more and more obvious comparison to what we're seeing now in the White House. The reports are coming out fast and furious that he now wants to send more troops. More troops, more lives, more violence, more madness. A new way forward. indeed. Because of this maniac the world is at a cross roads unimaginable just 6 years ago. Because of Bush, his mirror image is now in Iran and busy developing nukes of his own. Lebanon is facing civil war - again. And, Afghanistan is falling back to the Taliban and opium with every day. We won't even begin to talk about Pakistan. With a holocaust denial conference in full flower in Tehran, not to mention more speeches about Israel's imminent destruction, the Israelis' trigger fingers are getting itchy. If those planes fly, that's all folks. While the worse-case scenarios had this playing out in the first phases of the Iraq war, it now looks like it just took some time to germinate. I guarantee the results will not look or smell pretty.

Time is the one thing we are now officially out of. While Bush holds out the vain hope that some new plan or miracle will bring some truth to Mission Accomplished, events on the ground are far out-pacing his ability to control them. We are at the mercy of forces that are 1000's of years old, in a political and religious culture he doesn't understand, and we are facing a violence that was simply never part of his plan for "victory".

The way forward for us, as stated in the last post, is one way only - impeachment. He and his whole adminstration must be purged as quickly as possible. Brent Budowsky in The Huffington Post has called for a new POTUS initiative - bring back ALL the former Presidents to create a bipartisan Uber Executive Task force to take over the Executive branch for the remainder of this term. Working in concert with the new congress, all the former Presidents - with their skill, knowledge, and experience - not to mention diplomatic skills (think about it, all the ex-POTUS alive today are superb diplomats - Bush Pere included). We need a sure hand on the rudder of state and I for one can't think of a better solution. We face an unparralled crisis in the world right now and must embrace new possibilities and a new realism if we are going to get through it successfully. Time is not on our side - nor is the maniac roaming the halls of the White House.