General Odom

The quote below by Gen. William Odom is ripped from Juan Cole. After Dickhead Cheney smearing people as giving victories to our enemies, it is nice to see someone with authority point such accusations in the proper direction.

' "The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place," he said.

"The president has let [the Iraq war] proceed on automatic pilot, making no corrections in the face of accumulating evidence that his strategy is failing and cannot be rescued. He lets the United States fly further and further into trouble, squandering its influence, money and blood, facilitating the gains of our enemies." '

Although I agree the the war is a bigtime strategic mistake, it is worse than that. It is also a criminal war of aggression. If your house is vandalized, you don't ask the vandal to fix it. Maybe you send him the bill. Asking the criminal Bush administration to lead our recovery from the 'strategic mistake' is like asking the vandal to fix your house. The only correction that will start to rebuild our reputation in the rest of the world is impeachment. Although you can hardly expect Democrats who voted for a criminal war of aggression to impeach, this is a case where I wouldn't mind seeing those who have sinned cast the first stone.