As the debate on the War On Fear goes on, there's a fact that's becoming disturbingly obvious. It's obvious that the military has no clue as to what it's doing, no clue as to how to correct that, and has absolutely no interest in changing. The Bush regime, that never admits a mistake, claims success when violence is up, claims it when violence is down, and claims it again when it's back up. The only thing that ever changes is the sound bite slogans of "stay the course". Now, we have a new slogan called the "pause". In the Bush world of delusion, where up is down, down is up, mission accomplished means we're not done, and last throes means there's plenty more, it only makes sense that the word "pause" means to just keep doing what we've been doing. And, what we've been doing is aimlessly wondering around Iraq well knowing that we can never resolve the invented problem that the White House created. They do know however that leaving will create a disaster and turn Iraq into a hotbed of middle east chaos. They also know that the U.S cannot sustain an ongoing presence there and that the American people will not tolerate it. So, the only logical thing to do is to stay the course (or, pause) until the next president takes office. That next president will have no choice but to withdraw and face the consequences. The Republicans will then look at the Democrats and can say "told you so".

Yesterday, Gen. David H. Petraeus admitted;
"We haven't turned any corners. We haven't seen any lights at the end of the tunnel."


Sen George Voinovich “bin Laden is saying “we’re kinda bankrupting this country”


Not much has changed since Petraeus admitted that he didn't know if fighting in Iraq was making us safer.


Petraeus and Crocker admit that Pakistan and Afghanistan is a greater Al Qaeda threat than Iraq.


Sen Barbara Boxer wants to know why nothing has changed and why aren't we asking Iraqis to step up.

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