On May 1st of last year our fearless leader declared we had seen the end of major hostilities in Iraq. I guess the Mission Accomplished referred to in the background of the photo here was to get us suckered into a guerilla campaign that would cause us to lose all credibility everywhere in the world.

"Hey! We'll send in troops!"
"Yeah, and we'll kick your asses just like the Iraqi's."
(World gives US the finger)

Just a reminder...

Golly! You think they figured out the first act of the Iraqi Provisional government would be to say, "Get the hell out of our country!"

] The Bush administration on Tuesday called the June 30th
] transfer of authority in Iraq (news - web sites) just a
] step toward self-rule and not "a magical date" to hand
] over control of the country to Iraqis.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Says June 30 Not 'A Magical Date' for Iraq

It's nice to see that it's not just now that the government is lying to cover itself.

] Brown felt shocked by the role of the government
] attorneys back then, particularly the solicitor general.
] Brown couldn't believe that this man would stand
] flat-footed before the Supreme Court and say the
] documents contained national security secrets. The
] solicitor general had only his integrity. How could he
] relinquish that?

Yahoo! News - A Daughter Discovers What Really Happened

] Colonoscopy Parties Remove Fear Factor

Having had one of these, I'm not sure why in god's green earth this would ever be considered a "party activity." It has to rank right up there with "fun with cattle prods" and "Dental surgery, the Marathon Man way."

Yahoo! News - Colonoscopy Parties Remove Fear Factor

And now, today's sign of the coming apocalypse...

] Worm writers also are trading profanity-laced barbs in
] messages within coding. (Their high school English
] teachers would not be impressed.)
]
] "Don't ruine our business wanna start a war?" taunts the
] Bagle.j variant.
]
] "Netsky AntiVirus - Bagle - you are a looser!!!!" mocks
] Netsky.f.

Yahoo! News - Virus writers launch competing attacks

] At 258 pounds, the 6-foot-tall Atkins would have
] qualified as obese

So much for the Atkins diet.

Yahoo! News - Report: Atkins Had Heart Disease History

] An anti-American operative in Iraq appealed for help from
] al-Qaida leaders to help spark a sectarian war between
] Shiite and Sunni Muslims in an effort to drive the U.S.
] out of the country, a newspaper reported Monday.

When Howard Dean said he didn't think catching Saddam made the US safer, this is why he was saying it. Our excursion to Iraq has given al-Qaida an opening, and our botched invasion of Afghanistan means that they're still over there and have more sympathy from the average Pakistani because they didn't like us in the first place.

Way to go shrub, you managed to get a secular country into a holy war.

News

] In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades,
] a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over
] records about a gathering of anti-war activists.

What the hell? For people who were concerned about things like USAPATRIOT crossing the line, here's your smoking gun.

Yahoo! News - Feds Win Right to War Protesters' Records

] Russia has sent in the army to bolster a week-long
] struggle to rescue 10 tons of beer trapped under Siberian
] ice

When asked what the point of this was, the rotund Colonel Simpson is rumored to to have responded "mmmmm... beer..."

Homer Simpson Is A Russkie!

] Vice President Cheney says he believes "the jury's still
] out" on whether Iraq (news - web sites) had the chemical
] and biological weapons that were the Bush
] administration's justification for war.

Bullshit. Inspectors were there unhindered for a year before the war. We're heading on a year since the invasion. If WMD's show up over there it's going to come from one of two sources, us, or some guy's basement bathtub.

Cheney says it's too soon to tell on Iraqi arms - Cheney's a liar