Help, I'm Iraq

This week looks like it's going to be pivotal for those of us who have said all along that the United States had and has no business screwing around with Iraq. A new poll says nearly 6 out of 10 Americans think we should draw down or withdraw. One could nearly infer that Dennis Kucinich is officially no longer a wack-job but a moderate voice for a majority of Americans. Sadder statistics are haunting the whole thing, though: We have passed another morbid milestone of 1,700 U.S. deaths. Remember, folks, that's 1,700 of our troops sacrificed in a war that the president told us was being fought to rid a nation of weapons it didn't have, to liberate a people that we've quickly driven to resent and detest us, to fight terrorism in a region in which we've actually innoculated it. And more Americans are coming around to the gruesome reality that this administration is steering the boat with its ass.

Some of those Americans, incidentally, include Repbublican lawmakers. Rep. Walter Jones, the North Carolina Republican responsible for the incredible marketing ecumen that changed "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" on the Hill, said he will offer legislation demanding a timetable for withdrawl. Many other in the president's own party are beginning to clamor for a policy change.

I hope these little epiphanies have been augmented by the press' slow realization that the Downing Street Memo actually is news. On Thursday, Rep. John Conyers will be taking a letter signed by well more than 250,000 of us to the prez asking questions about the memo, following a forum on the issue. This will happen in the wake of a newly leaked British memo that fortifies the position that British intelligence feared that the United States did not have a closing strategy for this war.

Anyway, the tide is turning, kids. Hold on.

In other crrrap:

• Salon reports that some guy will soon release a new book detailing new very nasty things to be said about Hillary Clinton and her husband, Mr. Bill Clinton. I am not linking to it, nor am I going to regurgitate the garbage, but let it be said that it makes me very sad.