Now that he can’t use the WMD justification, the terrorist justification, or the International Community justification, Our Fair President has devolved to using the “dictator justification”:http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df09222004.html to explain why we invaded Iraq at a cost of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. “The Daily Mislead”:http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df09222004.html begs to differ with that reasoning.

I just read the most astute, “honest portrayal of the Iraq situation”:http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0920.html I’ve seen since the whole frenzy started. It’s balanced, it’s backed by facts, and amazingly enough it offers a coherent plan for how to both restore the country and get U.S. troops out of there as soon as possible.

The author? “John Kerry”:http://www.johnkerry.com/. I know, I’m as surprised as anyone.

It really is a good read, and it’s the only thing I’ve read so far that gives me hope of getting out of this quagmire.

“Talking Points Memo”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ has an excellent article on “why W and Kerry are still neck-and-neck in the polls”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_09_12.php#003465 despite W’s disastrous policies in Iraq becoming more obviously disastrous each day.

_Bush has sought — with real success — to edge Iraq out of the campaign dialogue by putting the issue back on to Kerry, asking what he would do differently…_

_…in this way, [he] has managed to derive political advantage from the magnitude of his own failure._

_Politically, Kerry needs to ignore the commentators who will press him to come up with a twenty point plan … though the way forward may be murky, the last person you want to lead the country down that foggy path is the guy who screwed everything up so badly in the first place._

If we’re supposed to be done “liberating” Iraq, then why are we “still bombing it”:http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040909_627.html?

You didn’t think I forgot about our political pickle, did you? Here’s The Daily Show’s take on the overarching message of the RNC: “["Words Speak Louder Than Facts":http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/sept2004/bushcampaignfilmdailyshow.mov].”