It's raining

According to a CBS poll 75% of the country doesn't like the way Bush is handling the war (which begs the question: what the hell is the 21% smoking?).
On that note, here's a nice column that strikes a nice note of unbridled rage that I appreciate. On saying that we've lost the war, big time:

Maybe you don't agree. Maybe you say, "Wait, wait, wait, it's not over at all, and we haven't lost yet. Isn't the fighting still raging? Can't we still 'win' even though we're still losing soldiers by the truckload and thousands of innocent Iraqis are being brutally slaughtered every month and isn't Dubya still standing there, brow scrunched and confounded as a monkey clinging onto a shiny razor blade, refusing to let go and free us from the deadly trap, ignoring the Iraq Study Group and trying to figure out a way to stay the course and never give in and "mission accomplished" even as every single human around him, from the top generals to crusty old James Baker to the new and shockingly honest secretary of defense, says we are royally screwed and Iraq is now a vicious and chaotic civil war and it's officially one of the worst disasters in American history?" Oh wait, you just answered your own question.

You want more good news? The Saudis have said that they might start (start, eh?) financing the Sunni insurgency if we pull our troops out of Iraq. (Because Saudi Arabia, like most of the Arab states, is majority Sunni -- Iraq is majority Shia -- and the Saudis say they are afraid that without us there to stop it the majority Shia will massacre the Sunni.) That's crazy time and a sign of how shitty things really are, because the Sunni insurgency is where most of the al Queda folk are chilling (such as they are, which is not as much as BushCo would like you to think, but nonetheless) and if there's one thing (other than us, and Israel) that them al Queda types hate, it's the Saudi monarchy. So if we're bringing them together, well watch the fuck out.