West Texas Hailstorm
by Charley Reese
President Bush has been bonked on the head by so many facts that refute his rhetoric in recent days, he must feel like he’s been caught in a West Texas hailstorm. But don’t worry about him. He’s a hardheaded man. I haven’t seen a fact yet that can get past his hair.
Even as the president has been putting a dent in the aviation-fuel inventory by flying around to tell Americans that they are safer because of the war in Iraq, out comes a National Intelligence Estimate and a couple of generals who say, “No, you’re not.”
As a number of people pointed out, even before the Iraq invasions in 2003, sending the Army to Iraq was the biggest favor Bush could possibly have granted to old Osama bin Laden. Invading a Muslim country, and killing and abusing its people, has been a great recruiting tool. There are now more insurgents than there were three years ago. There are now more attacks than there were three years ago. (more…)