Robert Dreyfuss has just posted an analysis of today's terrible bombings in Iraq. I give excerpts below. The whole thing is not too long, and well worth reading. I would support Kerry with less reluctance if he had something worthwhile to say about today's events. I'm not holding my breath.
Iraq, Paper, Bombs
The Dreyfuss Report
March 2, 2004
More than a hundred dead Iraqis littered the streets of Baghdad and Karbala today, mute testimony to the uselessness of the Iraqi paper "constitution" that was drafted by the Iraqi Governing Council. Its patchwork of compromises and platitudes about democracy are completely divorced from reality in Iraq. And that's underscored by the blasts today, which bring Iraq one step closer to civil war.
The fact that dozens of Iranians were among the victims could inflame relations between Iran and Iraq, too--and Iran has an enormous ability to cause trouble for the United States in Iraq.
Meanwhile, the constitution doesn't do a thing to address rising communal in-fighting. ... Time is running out for the Bush administration. Either they surrender to the United Nations, and beg Russia and France to bail them out with a new UN Security Council resolution that ends the U.S. occupation, or America's global prestige and credibility will disappear down the black hole of Iraqi civil war. And guess whose reelection chances go with it, if they haven't already?