Where We Going

According to Pew Research: "The steady drip of negative news from Iraq is significantly undermining support for the U.S. military operation there. With the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq exceeding 1,700, there is widespread awareness of the rising American death toll. As a consequence, baseline public attitudes toward the war are gradually turning more negative. Support for an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq continues to inch up ­ from 36% last October, to 42% in February, and 46% currently."

The only way the republicans are going to pull their cajones out of the fire is to justify the Iraq War as part of the war on terror and ratchet up the threat level to US. Quite a feat even with the neocon machinery of propaganda, and would likely require another "attack" on American soil with many deaths and concomitant mayhem, followed by a very lengthy media trial of a perp or two or three who survived the televised gun battle with US authorities, but who lo and we told are members of an Al-Kaydi mixed bag of Iraqi, Somalian, Sudanese, and Yemeni crickets, with an Anglo or two thrown in just to prove you can't trust anyone now days.

At the moment it appears the neocons never have a backup plan for any of their profitable adventures, and those cajones may have to continue to crackle in the fire, but don't count on it. The way politicians operate today the democrats will bring them water.