According to the Iraq Coalition Casualty website the Death Toll in the Iraq misadventure has reached 550 with the death of an American soldier in Kuwait. This is absolutely sad news to all Americans and my heart goes out to all the families of the fallen.
Still no WMDs, and 550 American families are grieving for their loved ones. Long after Bush and his cabal have left office those families and friends will be remembering their loved ones on birthdays, graduation days, and anniversaries. The GOP announced internally that the Iraq Occupation War would be good for their party's prospects in the 2002 elections and they are obviously going to use it as "a leg" of their re-election strategy.
Somehow, I think a REAL Democrat (like one from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party) would have the "stones" to be busy as hell sawing this gangrenous "leg" off of the Bush-iter's strategy.
I supported a Dem Nom candidate that had the "stones" to declare that the "Emperor had No Clothes" back when the others were hiding behind their momma's skirts and flip-flopping with every daily event in the Iraq misadventure.
So I will applaud the Dem Nominee when he keeps up with the pressure on the Bush-iters in the White House and Congress. And I will complain when the message gets, shall we say, 'demphasized'.
There was a reason for Dean's popularity and it had something to do with saying the 'un-sayable'. I have been detecting serious signs of calcium loss in the vertebra of various Dem functionaries (who barely functioned at all for years) now that Dean has stopped running for President. And I have seen lots of post-mortems, yadda-yadda, thanking Dean for "re-invigorating the party", but I have seen bupkis except for National Review articles quietly discussing purging the Washington policy people who helped with the Dean campaign.
I hope the Dem Nominee has what it takes to unite the Dem Party and one thing that will build 'electability' is for the Dem Nominee to actively solicit Dean as a bulldog for the Dem campaign.
Since Dean is well on his way to retiring his campaign debt with help from his supporters, I would expect that the price for that might have something to do with stopping the Insider Dem 'purges' of Dean people within the Dem Party. It is so great to have a person around who is not addicted to corpocroc money -- does anybody besides me notice the distinct lack of "fuzziness" caused by trying to collect from the 'crocs and still keep the activists happy?
When will we see someone holding the flap of the fabled 'big tent' open? I haven't seen much sign of it yet. Have you?
We'll see... won't we?
RMD