Monday, October 25, 2004

October Surprise?

The revelations in today's Times and Sixty Minutes of the American military's inability to secure Iraq's biggest stockpile of explosives could become the October Surprise we've all been waiting for. How can this NOT stick to Bush. There is not a single logical excuse for this, it is solely an example of horrible planning and idiotic assumptions on the part of ideologues who selectively interpret evidence contrary to the almost universal assumptions of civil service military planners and diplomatic officials. The inevitable response will be, "it's hard work bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq." John kerry should not let this opportunity pass him by. I want a commercial airing in swing states tomorrow stating simply that had John Kerry been president, the insurgency would not have had the explosives it has used to kill more than 1000 American soldiers because that would've been his first priority after the fall of Hussein. No graphics, just James Earl Jones reading the statement. I want it brutally clear that those thousand lives are directly the responsibililty of Bush and Bush alone.