Another one bites the dustThe news is thick on the ground today, let me tell you. But in the interest of preventing this site from becoming just another internet repository for half-formed, half-informed political aggravation-divesting rants, I'm going to keep today's post brief:
Alberto Gonzales resigns: Man, next time the Bush Administration considers taking a team photo, maybe they should just save the film (or bytes, or whatever) and hire Thomas Nast's ghost to draw a caricature instead. "Oh you mean those eight fired U.S. Attorneys...right, right...no, I...did I talk to anybody about that? At the what house? White House...a white house, or the White House?"
Christopher Hitchens insists that we're winning two out of three wars in Iraq: Too bad neither is the one where we get the democracy and the stability and people stop killing each other and we get to go home. But, as official Hitchensverse poet laureate Meat Loaf says, "Two out of three ain't bad."
Of course, the two out of three thing only applies if we accept C-Hitch's stated belief that we are on the cusp of defeating al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia (AQM) - a claim he bases on "e-mail from soldiers in Anbar province and some well-attested other reports" (which he follows up with a link to his August 13th Slate column, that, in the best neocons-and-their-fellow-travelers tradition, contains no references to said e-mails and another citation-free reference to these "well-attested reports"). Let me put it this way: Mr. Hitchens, impressive intellect though he may be, has a chronic case of confirmation bias when it comes to the Iraq War; indeed he maybe the only person outside of the G.O.P. still trying to paint a smiley face on this particular clusterfuck. If a couple of e-mails and phantom reports is what Hitchens is going on (hey, sounds a lot like the original case for war!) then be advised to place your bets elsewhere.
