I read an article today about a mother camping out along the road that leads to Bush's Camp Crawford and it said something in there about Shrub's reasons for going into war shifting. I set my mind to mulling that over and realized the reason Shrub's keeping the troops there now isn't anything close to what reason he gave waaaaaaaaay back in February (or was it March?) '03. First it was the WMD. Then it was because Saddam was a Bad Man. Then it was "They need the joy of an American democratic republic!" Now we can't leave b/c it would leave them without a firm foundation and/or infrastructure. The last one, I'm inclined to agree with, but if we hadn't made a mess to begin with we wouldn't need to pick it up. Oh, and it wasn't a war but now it is? When did Congress vote for the States to go to war? Of course, I'm taking what the Constitution into consideration, so I'm sure that has something to do with why I'm confused. If it wasn't a war when we went in, when did it become one and, again, when did Congress approve that action? I'm being rhetorical, so no need to tell me Congress didn't. Shrub used a term like 'military action' to describe what he wanted, which saved him the hassle of having to get Congress to give him permission to go play war games and show Daddy how it should've been done back in '91. Slowly, the word 'war' and the idea that's what was going on in Iraq was let loose to go forth and plant itself in minds and take root and convince us that's what had always been going on.

How many more excuses is Shrub going to feed us before the nation gets fed up enough to lean on our representatives to do something about that man? I'm sure something he's legitimately done could be considered grounds for impeachment hearings and even if he was kicked out of office we'd have to deal with Cheney, and there are seventeen more of Bush's toadies/lackies/minions-no, I correct myself, fifteen more, since two are foreign born so they can't be President. Still, that's a lot of people we'd have to impeach before there'd be any possible hope of getting someone in office that might actually bring hope of improvement and the possibility of being a mere figurehead in the Oval Office, letting Shrub continue to rule through them. Alas, replacing him will have to wait until '08. But we can lean on our representatives and they, in turn, can lean on him. That's how those of us who are totally fed up and furious with the way things are going can make ourselves heard and have influence. It's a small one, but if a lot of people get together, something can be done.