Zapatero, Spain's new leader, said, today, that the occupation of Iraq is
"turning into a fiasco". As if to underscore that point, moments later a hotel located behind the square where the famous statue toppling took place, and close to the Palestine Hotel where so many journalists and foreign workers are housed,
was bombed.
How much is it going to take for the citizens of our own country to learn, like the Spanish did, that the right is wrong on Iraq? Heaven forbid that another bombing take place, here in the U.S. There's enough of that happening in Iraq, I'd think, to show just how much Bush has botched the whole kit and kaboodle. Nevertheless, Americans still turn a seemingly blind eye and view this as "progress" in the "war on terror". Meanwhile, the right tries to preemptively spin any possible future attack in the U.S. so they can have it both ways: if one doesn't happen, Bush made us safer and deserves reelection, but if one does happen then Bush needs to be reelected or the terrorists will have won.