GO FIGURE

Go figure, though give a guy credit for trying, and since it has worked in the past, why not trot it out again?

George’s people know how to frame an issue, even if the information enclosed by the frame is wrong. So it makes sense that Bush once again evoked 9/11 when talking about the need for the US to stay the course in Iraq, even though facts, not to mention events on the ground, belie his assertions that we are making progress and that the conflict is winnable.

The conflict is probably not winnable, not this year or next or five years down the road. Freedom and Democracy cannot be imposed from without. Freedom and Democracy must be earned from within. In the case of Iraq, with its historic ethnic and religious divisions, civil war may be the only way to earn freedom and Democracy.

I wish I knew what Bush means when he states that the invasion/occupation is “worth” the sacrifice of thousands of human lives. Worth it to whom?

How can we call our fallen, wounded or maimed for life heroes if their cause is not heroic?

Go figure. Whatever happened to the great California energy crunch? It was a major issue in the Davis Recall Campaign, a sure sign of Davis’s incompetence, but once Arnold swept into office, the crunch seemed to evaporate. Perhaps the real culprit was Enron and weak oversight by the Feds. Perhaps the crisis was manufactured by Republicans to wrest control of the state from the Democrats.

Go figure as well the national terrorist threat system of color-coded alerts. We heard plenty about that prior to the November 2004 election, but little since. Are we to conclude that the terrorist threat is lessened?

Hmmm. Somewhere, George Orwell is saying “I told you so.”