so, first order of business for all you political types: http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict/bush_surge_4239.jsp.
great article and you know, it puts down what i think of this whole war thing. rather than taking a good way out W has chosen to escalate the war, kill more people, make more people in the middle east radically opposed to our interests and to further train radical Muslim terrorists all while crippling us financially and deverting our focus from far more important problems.
oh, and do you think that the "war on terror" can possibly end well when we ourselves are creating terror in the hearts of men with our pre-emptive wars? how can we possibly end something we're creating unless we change?
second order of business is the grilling condi got yesterday. did you hear Sen. Obama? "The solution always seems to be six months away." so fucking true! she was not used to getting this sort of treatment and i loved watching her get eaten by those senators. i say they deny funding for the war machine. the bull-headed ignorance going into this whole thing is going to cost more american lives and put us deep into a debt we cannot afford.