Response to Abe's Post: "White House Flailing"

Deceit as a tool to confuse is another practice that creates hostility between reasonably minded, informed Americans and the administration. Abe's post is exactly why Bush's approval ratings are so low and why he finds it so difficult to gain international support in anything he does. Trying to link our current problems back to 9-11 is silly, dishonest and insulting to informed Americans. Sure there are many Al-quada operatives in Iraq, that is not disputed. They are there because we are in Iraq. They have never been in Iraq before. We are in Iraq because we bought into a war that was premised on shakey supporting evidence passed on as reliable and trustworthy. Once we(those who do not support this war for the right reasons(think about that)) learned we could not trust at face value what the Bush Administration says, we, as is human nature, were skeptical of any official statement by the administration. Its kind of like when your girlfriend catches you in a lie that deals with you being drunk with an 18yr old, 109lb blonde girl with size GG mammaries(see, i.e. Aviator) and your cell phone was mysteriously out of battery. Trust is lost and skepticism afoot. Now, if you are a Bush supporter and a ra, ra, bush lover, you stick to your guns and support the war at all costs, believing the great amount of bullshit coming out of these guys' mouth. But, if you are a Republican and not all that fond of W(and there are a lot of you, remember 2000 election) you change your opinion along with folks like me because you are no longer able to trust what your government does. In the end, I would like to be simple minded and have a fanatic mentality of my party(see i.e the hacks over at CC and J.Spoof) much like I do of the Dallas Cowboys. But, I am not naive or selfish enough to think this is about winning the argument at all costs like the Bush administration does. In reality, mistakes are always made, better options always pushed aside for selfish promotion and sight always lost due to small thinking of self interested individuals. What kills me is that spun statements, like the one on Abe's post, are so prevelantly given by the administration and I think they honestly expect me to believe all errors so far have been minor. Give me a break, Iraq is a disaster and WE THOUGHT we had "Mission Accomplished". They showed their cards on that carrier and they were so wrong. The Bush Administration has fucked up majorily, now lets work together to clean up his mess. I think all we want is acknowledgment that he needs help.