TOO EARLY TO CELEBRATE

Malcom Lagauche

There is a God. Camelot is just around the corner. Bush lost the House of Representatives and the Senate. Rumsfeld resigned. The U.S. is pulling its troops out of Iraq. Happy days are here again. Bullshit! Fairy tales are for kids. The left press and its supporters have gone berserk. For months, we have been told that a change in the makeup of the U.S. Congress will turn this country around and we all can look to many different policies. Today, they are in a jubilant mood. Six months from now, however, they will be just as gloomy as they were during the Bush days; maybe even more so. The big issue was the Iraq war. Most voters were conned into believing that a Democratic victory would begin an exit from Iraq. I only wish I could find some of the hallucinatory stuff they are smoking. First of all, 14 permanent U.S. military bases are being built in Iraq by around-the-clock workforces. They will not be turned into Disney parks or mini golf courses. Four of them are super-bases that will be able to house thousands of troops. Just down the road in Baghdad’s "Green Zone," the largest embassy in the history of the world is being built...

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