This diary was originally published with a title that immediately blinded people to the greater message. What's more, I believe the reaction illustrated the precisely the point that I trying to make.

If Dems actually had a reaction on an equivalent level to Bush's defecation on "everything-that-is-America" that was half as virulent as the reaction my original diary received because of a WORD then maybe, just maybe, America wouldn't be in the hellhole it finds itself....

Please note that I have written a separate diary with some commentary about how Obama's calls for empathy can help guide us into the future. Seeing how I cannot post two diaries in one day, I will post this sanitized diary first, and then post the commentary tomorrow.

(See below the fold for the "sanitized" version of the diary.)

Congress finally has passed the Iraq War supplemental funding bill. But the wrangling is not over, since Bush promises a veto because of the troop-withdrawal timetable in the bill.

So, look for more criticism of the Dem’s bill like thisfrom the Prez:  "I believe strongly that politicians in Washington shouldn't be telling generals how to do their job."

The hypocrisy of Bush’s line of attack is breathtaking, even by Washington ("Dee-Hypocri-Cee") standards. This is, after all, a "commander-in-chief" who simply dismisses generals (Shinseki, Abizaid, Casey, et al) who won’t tell him what he wants to hear.

And Rajiv Chandrasekaran, in his Imperial Life in the Emerald City, details how Bush and "Wrong Again" Rumsfeld ignored combatant commanders in 2004 and attacked Falluhjah, with catastrophic consequences

Oh - we most certainly think we know what that is don't we?  Surely it is the fact that we entered a war with a country on utterly false pretenses?  Surely it is the fact that we dismantled their military, destroyed their economy, fomented a civil war and are now planning a surge escalation of the violence as a means to end it?

No.

The true failure of the entire Iraq Campaign is the fact the we let Neo-Con Wing-nuts run everything - everything - miles into the ground while they themselves remained  safely behind the walls of the Emerald City.

Musical Accompaniment for this Diary by...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran has written a great book, "Imperial Life in the Emerald City", that illustrates the folly that followed all the Bush Adminstration lying on why we needed to go to war in Iraq. With Jim O'Beirne (GOP big mouth Kate's husband) at the helm the Bush Adminstration focused on Republican loyalists with or without any relevant experience to staff the running of Iraq. The Washington Post fortunately has now covered the whole fiasco on the front page focusing on Chandrasekaran's book. The facts are amazing.