Bush Vacation: Day 20

Gas prices: holding.

Soldiers in Afghanistan: 13 dead in August. Looks like our allies in Pakistan have something to do with this.

While protesters attempt to shed some light from outside his speech, Bush said "the only way to defend to our citizens where we live is to go after the terrorists where they live."

He conveniently misremembered the fact that terrorists were not in Iraq (Living? maybe, but no one important. Training? highly doubtful -- you think Saddam would put up with that?) before we hit the purée button. But now, according to even our own CIA, Iraq is a terrorist training ground. And they're going back into Afghanistan to help the Taliban.

Oh, and I hope this isn't President George W. Bush's (he is The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United State of America, you know?) idea of a "noble cause":

"One of the biggest problems I deal with is the fact that even though we fought a three day battle to secure an IP station and we won. We abandoned it the next day and within a week the Mahdi army bullied all the Iraqi police out of it, placed demo charges and blew it up. And our leadership didn't even bat an eye. Can't figure out why we would fight so hard for something that had 4 guys killed and 12 wounded just so we can let it get blown up." (from DailyKos)

Because it really renders the words meaningless.

How we are going to get through the next three years status quo is beyond my imagination.