Washington Implodes (best article I've read in six months)

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2003/41/we_557_01a.html

Spend 10 minutes reading this, and remember how you felt six months ago, thinking if only... Tom Engelhardt masterfully shows us the path of the reaper having arrived, and we wait no more.

I'm not sure about MJ - I'm not sure I trust it. But yeah, sometimes they get it right.

in a while.


Thanks.

I really liked this article.

What an unmitigated tragedy this administration has been for our country. This brings all the endless outrages into sharp focus.

I've bookmarked it so I can read it again when I have more time to sit and take it all in. Lots of thoughtful stuff.

additional links. Although, Vis, I thought I was a speed reader....only 10 minutes! LOL's...Took me much longer and I had actually read two of the linked articles before.

Very hopeful seeing it all put together. And, one realizes again how little news of value we get from the cables and even the networks. The print press has it all, even if one has to go around the world to find it!

Thanks!

that mark family members away on guard or reserve duty. That's the killing blow for the Bush* administration. These are folks who have voted with the GOP since day one and are slowly beginning to realize that they are being severly ripped off.

That's what's going to send them down.

thanks for this post

A good reminder of why I need to renew my subscription to Mother Jones.

Excellent post!

ball player with the gory details..and the drug addiction of an ignorant male.

Have you read this http://democraticunderground.com/articles/03/10/10_spark.html

"But none of this, of course, makes sense if you leave out Iraq. Our fundamentalist leaders made a genuine pact with the Devil (and I'm not talking about the Great Satan Saddam here). They sold their souls for a Middle East of their dreams and for control over the great global oil spigot, rolled the dice, had their moment, and now when the Devil's come to collect, they've left themselves no way out. (That's the real Iraqi "quagmire.") And so, instead of driving their foes before them, they are being driven; and, in the end, what's driving them are the acts of resistance of undoubtedly relatively small numbers of increasingly better organized Iraqis -- angered urbanites, farmers who have lost kin, Baathist hardliners, embittered, discharged army veterans, Islamicist extremists (both homebred and foreign), unknown numbers of them brutes, thugs, fanatics, and criminals. Remarkably enough - and this is just the truth of the matter - they now hold the fate of the Bush administration in their hands. "
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I wish I was confident that the Bush administration is about to be womped by the effects of this war. The press is masterful in covering up for Republican treachery, and I am sure that the White House is carefully crafting an Iraq war ideology for them to promulgate. However, I don't see this war winding down soon, nor do I see the economy improving by midsummer 2004, so we should be able to defeat Bush. It will not come without effort, though, and we are going to have to work on this for a generation.

I read it again, lol.

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