Drums Beating Louder

From the generally pro-war World Net Daily, Vox Day writes we should "End the Charade". This is good news. The drum beat to get US out of Iraq continues to grow.

The Vox Day article is so concisely written that it is hard to separate anything out, so you should read the entire thing yourself. However, the first two paragraphs give you a taste of the entire piece:

The cognitive dissonance required to believe the Bush administration is approaching critical mass. Some semblance of victory in the War on Method has been declared at least four times that I recall, and yet American troops are still being murdered on a weekly basis in free and democratic Iraq.

The armed forces are now reduced to lying about who killed its poster boys, putting its own troops on trial and revising its recruitment targets to disguise the fact that no amount of media triumphalism suffices to convince most young Americans that extending the Pax Americana to the Middle East is worth death by improvised explosive device.

I love the "War on Method" idea. Declaring a war on "terror", which is just a method for conflict, is rather silly when you think about it.

We also see that our old friend Walter Jones (R-House) received some national coverage this week on "This Week", promoting the latest bill to establish a time table for leaving Iraq.

A Republican congressman who voted for the
Iraq war said Sunday that "we've done about as much as we can do" in the country and that the reason for invading Iraq has proven false.

Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina will be among the lawmakers introducing legislation this week calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops in Iraq.

"When I look at the number of men and women who have been killed — it's almost 1,700 now, in addition to close to 12,000 have been severely wounded — and I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass destruction, the ability of the Iraqis to make a nuclear weapon, that's all been proven that it was never there," Jones said on ABC's "This Week."

And finally, from bella ciao we see that the "Downing Street Memo" continues to create buzz on the internet:

Six weeks ago The Sunday Times published the leaked minutes of a July 2002 Downing Street meeting in which Tony Blair committed Britain to war in Iraq months before parliament was consulted.

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By any standards these were fascinating revelations. Nothing, however, could have prepared us for what a worldwide impact the story would have. More than a month later it still features in the daily top 10 most popular stories on our website, with 330,000 people estimated to have logged on to read it.

Also, the Bolton nomination is falling off the radar screen and the Republicans will lose this battle unless they make a move.

The momentum seems to be with the antiwar folks, for now. As with any good scrum, however, any attempt to stop push will be disastrous.