THE SOFT, YET CRUSHING BLOW OF "LOWERED EXPECTATIONS"

Bushco's changing the dance card for Iraq...again. Here's a clip...

washingtonpost.com
U.S. Lowers Sights On What Can Be Achieved in Iraq
Administration Is Shedding 'Unreality' That Dominated Invasion, Official Says

By Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 14, 2005; A01

The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society in which the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

The "unreality that dominated in the beginning"...could that be, could it possibly be, a sideways GOP way of saying "ok dammit, we lied and now we are officially painted into a corner". ?
Please Bunnypants...say it isn't so! Woe is me Dubya...has this shit finally blown up in your face?
I think maybe it has.

That Garafaloe woman was on Air America tonight ( I only call her that because Janeen is hard to spell right...maybe I should enroll in the Derek Zoolander school for kids that want to read good or something ) I'm not even sure if I'm spelling her last name right either, but it sounds like a tasty hungarian dish with sauce and noodles.
Back to the point...she was commenting on how bunnypants is illegitamate for two terms now...installed the first time, swindled in the next. And wouldn't it be cool if information came to light to prove this beyond doubt and that would result in everything he's ever done as "president" would be reversed...null and void.
God damn! that would rock like Helmet.

How many innocents have we killed over there? Almost 2000 american lives sacrificed so the US of muthafuckin' A can lower the bar?
And probably the biggest insult to us all is that new show on FX..."Over There". We can't see the real thing, but we can watch a fictionalized drama on cable about the war that rages around us.

But the good news is the tables are starting to turn.