Donuts And Politics

If someone went into a coma on March 21, 2003 and woke up today, they would probably say something like this: We’re STILL in Iraq? Quit pullin’ my leg, fool. That was supposed to be a cakewalk.”

The disturbing statistics thus far, for a conflict that has NOT made us any safer (and if you think it has, please post a comment and explain to me how):

U.S. Fatalities: 3,990
U.S. Casualties: 40,229
Iraqi Fatalities: upwards of 150,000

Cost: $504,000,000,000.00

Also, Dick Cheney doesn’t car what the American people think:

CHENEY: On the security front, I think there’s a general consensus that we’ve made major progress, that the surge has worked. That’s been a major success.

RADDATZ: Two-third of Americans say it’s not worth fighting.

CHENEY: So?

RADDATZ So? You don’t care what the American people think?

CHENEY: No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public opinion polls.

I’m sorry, when did America become a monarchy? Oh yeah, November, 2000. It’s like Monty Python here:

CHENEY: I’m your King!

Dennis: I didn’t vote for you!

Interesting quotes from Mike Huckabee on MSNBC this morning:

“[Y]ou can’t hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,” Huckabee says. “It’s interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what … Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say ‘Well, I didn’t mean to say it quite like that.’”

Later, he defended Wright’s anger, too:

“As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say ‘That’s a terrible statement!’ … I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m gonna be probably the only conservative in America who’s gonna say something like this, but I’m just tellin’ you — we’ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names…”

I always though Huckabee was a pretty straight shooter despite disagreeing with him on some of his ideas.