FLAIT

We've heard it over and over: "We're making progress in Iraq."

We've heard it from Tony Blair (here), Dick Cheney (here), and George Bush (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here...well, you get the idea). A Google search of the words "Iraq" and "progress" yielded almost 30 million hits. With all this progress, you'd think the war would be over by now.

Maybe if Blair, Cheney, Bush, his (criminal) administration and (cult of a) political party spent as much time and energy rethinking, recalculating and restrategizing this war as they do spinning it and avoiding it, maybe it wouldn't be the colossal disaster it has become. But that's assuming they gave a damn. It's much easier to say "progress is being made" and play to your (brainwashed) base, then admit you've been wrong (and it's our troops that have to pay the price for such immaturity, incompetence, arrogance, stubbornness and nasty partisanship. And to think Republicans accuse Democrats of "not supporting the troops".).

Using Republican logic the 1962 Mets could have said they were "making progress;" Ken Lay could have said Enron's stock price was "making progress;" and a compulsive gambler could keep saying he's "making progress" towards winning the lottery.

Yea, and O.J's "making progress" finding the real killers too.

I'd sooner believe a $3 bill coming out of a con man's pocket then the word "progress" coming out of George Bush's mouth.

So why do we allow Bush and the Republicans to get away with it? Why does the so called "liberal" media even bother reporting their hollow words? And why do they do so with such legitimacy and credibility? To insult our intelligence?

Ask a silly question...

Enough already! I'm sick and tired of hearing the word. Heck, I was fed up with the word two years ago!

"Progress" in Iraq will never be measured by what Bush or any Republican says (duh!). And since real progress can be measured by the results on the ground, which would certainly speak for themselves, Bush shouldn't have to tell us when it's actually happening (who'd believe him anyway?). In fact, the more Bush and his sycophants use the word, the less true it is.

Another moronic Republican talking point making the rounds is that "good news" goes "unreported" by the so called "liberal" media. Please. With all the chaos, violence, bombings, kidnappings, American casualties, Iraqi casualties - which include tortured bodies, headless bodies and heads turning up every single day - the refugees, the corruption, the disease, the lack of electricity and clean water, the squandering of hundreds of billions of dollars, the loss of our credibility around the world and the emboldening of Iran and al-Qaeda, the only "good news" coming out of Iraq is that we're damn lucky the war isn't worse then it is.

There will be real progress and good news when our troops (and pompous, arrogant Republicans) can walk down the streets of Baghdad, Fallujah, Najaf, Kirkuk, Tikrit, Anbar, Diyala, Taji and Ramadi with less and less fear and eventually, little or no body armor. Is that asking too much? Well, of course it is. But that just goes to show that Iraq is a colossal disaster, there is no "good news" and certainly no "progress" (at least none worth bragging about). And never will be.

I'd hate to think of what Iraq would have to look like for Bush, Cheney the Republican Party and their mindless and gullible base to finally admit it.

P.S. More Republican "progress" here, here, here, here and here. Any more of that kind of "progress" and the war will become worse then it is.

Feb. 2008 insert: While Bush was boasting about all the "progress" that was being made last year this was taking place.