-=> Quoting Wayne Chirnside to Ross Sauer <=-

 WC> Never have I been so miserable as to have been right about so
 WC> much in the Bush administration.

You have *one* thing right, Wayne, you certainly are "miserable" 
... [sigh] ...

 WC> I started out critical of Dick Cheney's secret energy policy
 WC> *knowing* it was a setup for war but not
 WC> being able to make myself quite _believe_ people from my 
 WC> generation could repeat Vietnam.

This is nothing like Vietnam.  Vietnam is a jungle while Iraq is 
a desert.  They couldn't *be* more different!

 WC> Now the same back channels that informed me there was no WMD in
 WC> Iraq and no Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda informs me the Bush administration
 WC> is repeating the Vietnam _exit strategy_ scheduled for right after
 WC> the midterm elections.

"Back channels" ... 'scuse me ... [smirf] ...

 WC> Only this time they intend to withdraw U.S. ground forces outside of
 WC> Iraq while continuing to provide the Iraqis air support.
 WC> I have serious doubts it'll work for various reasons.

Since you are such a military expert I certainly hope they pay 
attention ... [sigh] ... since you won't recognize it, Wayne, I 
should point out to you that's what we call "sarcasm" ...

 WC> Well, Osama bin Laden got what he wanted, the U.S. out of Saudi Arabia
 WC> and the promotion of Al Qaeda into a major leaque terrorist
 WC> network of considerable worldwide influence.

What have you, personally, done to stop him, Wayne?  And whining 
doesn't count ...

 WC> Congradulations George W. Bush, "Mission Accomplished."
 WC> Osama's mission.
 WC> "Bring 'em on", they did and now 3,000 dead American servicepeople
 WC> and 20,000 wounded and maimed for life.

"Freedom isn't Free" as the saying goes, Wayne.  Stop denigrating 
our troops in Iraq.  It's because of their efforts that you are 
safer now than you were five years ago ... neglecting the 
alligators, of course ...

 WC> Now for the economic realities of the record federal budget deficit to
 WC> set in on the fools who supported this administration.

But, Wayne, not only "fools" supported GWB, people such as *I* 
also did -- and *do* ...

 WC> You have to give the fools a couple of years to wake up
 WC> to reality, just like in the case of the mythical weapons of
 WC> mass destruction.

So you'll wake up to reality within two years?  Good!

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