for no good reason (great editorial Bob Herbert)

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?d_issuesearch=on&f_subsection=sEDITORIAL+DESK&p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date:D&p_text_direct-0=document_id=(%2010D03A7948BF2E78%20)&d_place=NYTB&p_multi=NYTB&f_issue=2005-10-03&f_publisher=&p_product=NewsBank&p_theme=aggregated4&p_nbid=G5CE63IYMTEyNzEzNDYwNi40NzA4MTU6MToxMjpuY2RtaW51dGVtYW4

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The president who slept through the early days of the agony in New Orleans is sleepwalking through the never-ending agony in Iraq. During an appearance at a naval base in California, Mr. Bush characterized the war that he started in Iraq as the moral equivalent of America's struggle against the Nazis and the Japanese in World War II.

If that's true, the entire nation should be mobilized. But, of course, it's not true. This is a reckless, indefensible war that has been avoided like the plague by the children of the privileged classes.

Even the most diehard defenders of this debacle are coming to the realization that it is doomed. So the party line now is that the Iraqis at some point will have to bear the burden of Mr. Bush's war alone.

Talk about a cruel joke. On the same day that Senator McCain faced off with General Myers, more than 100 people were killed in a series of car bombs in a town north of Baghdad; five U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Ramadi; and the American general in charge of U.S. forces in Iraq, George Casey, admitted before the Armed Services Committee that only 1 of the Iraqi Army's 86 battalions was capable of fighting the insurgency without American help.

When do we stop the madness?

http://www.tinyurl.com

Makes short work of those hideously long urls and makes your posts much easier to read! :)

You don't need TinyUrl for DU because links are automatically truncated.

Plus, smaller sites depend on Google traffic, if you use TinyURL the original site doesn't get the "vote" that a link would provide.

If you don't like the long URL, just create a hyperlink. It's easy! like this.

The one in the original post above was not automatically truncated and it made me have to scroll way over to see the entirety of the post!

Watch, I will make a ridiculously long URL:

www.brainshrub.com/abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz12345678990blahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblahblah

The above url is

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...Cool.

thanks brainshrub

:hi:

this quote most. So sadly true

You never want to say that brave troops died for the mindless fantasies spun by a gang of dissembling, inept politicians. But what else did they die for?

Tell us what you think Bob, don't be shy.

What do we tell the Americans who have been wounded in this war? Why did they lose limbs? Why were they badly burned? Why will they be paralyzed for the rest of their lives? Why? For what reason?

In other words, in Cindy's words, "What was the noble cause"?

:unmitigatedrage: