Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

Whether it does or not, this is how it should happen. Not by an act of war from the U.S. but from within, the way revolutions do. Cheers to the people of Iran who have taken it up with their government, or whatever it is you call it there–regime, assholery. Just think, if Bill Kristol and many others of his gang had their way, we could have killed many of these same people in the name of democracy for the Middle East. Weird how they become brave heroes when they do it themselves, as opposed to enemies of war when we do it for them.

How many young Iraqis did not live to be able to choose their own revolution, I wonder?

McCain “wrote” an op-ed for the NYT and they read it and said “eh. No. Try again?” Just doing him a solid because, as Jason Linkins writes in the Huffington Post, it “spared McCain no end of embarrassment, because the op-ed is rivetingly dumb and laden with inaccuracies.”

In short, there is just not one word of that op-ed that makes a lick of sense. Far from complaining, the McCain camp owes the Times a little gratitude.

It is amusing to watch as both Bush and McCain come around to Obama’s way of thinking on Iraq, all the while criticizing him for…wanting to lose? It appears that the only way we can “win” in Iraq is if a Republican brings the troops home instead of a Democrat. Unless Bush moves quickly–and he won’t–Obama will be ending the debacle in Iraq, and not a moment too soon. Sucks to be you, McWeiner.

Years too late and way past time for redemption, Scott McClellan finally writes his book that says what we knew all along. Doesn’t do us much good now, but it serves as another reminder for the Apologists who’ve been blindly supporting Bush for so many years: wrong as usual. And yet, in the race for the next president, we have serious examinations of flag pins and preachers, and plenty of fake outrage to go around. We really do get the country government we deserve, as if any more proof is needed.

“If anything, the national press corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington, the choice over whether to go to war in Iraq.”

“The collapse of the administration’s rationales for war, which became apparent months after our invasion, should never have come as such a surprise. … In this case, the ‘liberal media’ didn’t live up to its reputation. If it had, the country would have been better served.�

“History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder. No one, including me, can know with absolute certainty how the war will be viewed decades from now when we can more fully understand its impact. What I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary, and the Iraq war was not necessary.â€?

Now, what to do about the war criminals responsible?