bush II Gave a Speech Last Night ...

Yeah. He promised much more of the same.

I don't know. I can't stand the sound of his voice and I don't need to subject myself to the emptiness of his words.

Some have argued that the "surge" (as they're calling it) is a desperate attempt to keep the battle going until 2009 when Iraq will be another president's mess and bush II can gutlessly retire to his alcoholism in Houston or wherever.

Richard W. Behan says that bush II only has to last 90 days, long enough for Maliki to get the legislation granting Western oil companies access to Iraq's petroleum reserves through the Iraqi Parliament.

Regardless, there's little anyone can do about this stupidity and greed. The American people still have among them 30 percent of the population so debased and clueless that they support bush II. Too many more of them will dawdle while pinning their hopes for sanity on the detestable, pro-war Democrats. Everyone else is too bitter, weak, and divided, to really do what needs to be done.

I'll also note that incompetent Condoleeza Rice is warning that there will be consequences for any countries working to destablilize Iraq. (I imagine then, that she'll recommend firing cruise missles at the White House, to her Commander in Chief.)

The corporate media continues to act and write as if this "surge" is some piece of serious policy, rather than an arrogant and indifferent "more of the same." And the voices of sanity and reason who were right all along about what the Iraq war would be continue to be excluded from the debate.

Make no mistake about it though. This invasion of Iraq was an act of monstrous evil, and no matter how much the corporate media might want to obfuscate (especially given their role in cheering it on and making it possible) it is a crime against humanity.

Nothing will change though, until the tyranny that marks our economic and political institutions is overcome by genuine democracy.

Greed and imperialism will mark our foreign policy and this will be supported and disguised by a complicit press so long as greed and inequality mark our societies.