Ho-lee Cow. It's over the wall. Frank Rich broke his bat on this one.

We have long since lost count of all the historic turning points and fast-evaporating victories hyped by this president. The toppling of Saddam's statue, "Mission Accomplished," the transfer of sovereignty and the purple fingers all blur into a hallucinatory loop of delusion. One such red-letter day, some may dimly recall, was the adoption of the previous, interim constitution in March 2004, also proclaimed a "historic milestone" by Mr. Bush. Within a month after that fabulous victory, the insurgency boiled over into the war we have today, taking, among many others, the life of Casey Sheehan.
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And what exactly is our task? Mr. Bush's current definition - "as the Iraqis stand up, we will stand down" - could not be a better formula for quagmire. Twenty-eight months after the fall of Saddam, only "a small number" of Iraqi troops are capable of fighting without American assistance, according to the Pentagon - a figure that Joseph Biden puts at "fewer than 3,000." At this rate, our 138,000 troops will be replaced by self-sufficient locals in roughly 100 years.
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The Democrats are hoping that if they do nothing, they might inherit the earth as the Bush administration goes down the tubes. Whatever the dubious merits of this Kerryesque course as a political strategy, as a moral strategy it's unpatriotic. The earth may not be worth inheriting if Iraq continues to sabotage America's ability to take on Iran and North Korea, let alone Al Qaeda.
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The marketing campaign will crescendo in two weeks, on the anniversary of 9/11, when a Defense Department "Freedom Walk" will trek from the site of the Pentagon attack through Arlington National Cemetery to a country music concert on the Mall. There the false linkage of Iraq to 9/11 will be hammered in once more, this time with a beat: Clint Black will sing "I Raq and Roll," a ditty whose lyrics focus on Saddam, not the Islamic radicals who actually attacked America. Lest any propaganda opportunity be missed, Arlington's gravestones are being branded with the Pentagon's slogans for military campaigns, like Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Associated Press reported last week - a historic first. If only the administration had thought of doing the same on the fallen's coffins, it might have allowed photographs.

No Democrat who is currently in any National Office except perhaps Feingold is even talking the talk. Too terrified of Rove and the republican slime machine, and perhaps too ashamed of their lack of spine in days past they feel they do good (for themselves) by saying nothing at all. So who do we listen to? Who do we look to for leadership now that all our alleged "leaders" have averted their gaze and assumed submissive positions to the 1600 Crew?

Unless things change, I'm going with Wes Clark. He may be a political one-trick pony bred just for Mess O'Potamia, but damn it, no one else has either the brains or balls together to even start challenging piss-poor position the 1600 Crew have put us in. Clark is a leader, not afraid to raise the bullshit flag, and that's what it's going to take to extricate this country from the 1600 Crew disaster.

2006 - we have to take back at least one chamber of Congress, and begin to stop not only the disasterous policies of absolute failure of the 1600 Crew, but keep them from hiding the evidence of their criminal wrongdoing, something they are more afraid of seeing the light of day, than all the falling poll numbers in the world. They know that the first unrefutable documentary evidence of their misconduct will not only poison the public against them, but the GOoPers for generations to come.