Bush/Cheney sneer their way to another grisly milestone

This just in from the AP: American deaths in Iraq reach 4,000.

The answer to the question, “How many people have to die to settle W’s Daddy Issues?” is now 4,000 and counting, and that’s only because we have the good taste not to count the Iraqi dead. Which is only reasonable, considering how foolish they were to be born in the wrong place. It’s called survival of the fittest for a reason, folks. In this case, it means “choose your parents well.” And for all his faults, you can’t throw that one at W’s feet. Third base is an excellent place to be born.

Leave it to Dick Cheney to summarize the loss of life and limb in Iraq for the administration with his trademark light touch. Some snooty TV reporter had the temerity to point out to him last week, “2/3 of Americans say it [the Iraq War]’s not worth fighting.” And to give credit where it is due, Cheney did not blow smoke up her pantsuit with his succinct reply, “So?” Just for good measure, he delivered his monosyllabic response with a characteristic smirk. Bush used to be the Smirker of note, but now that his tenure is winding down he’s abdicated even that responsibility to his eager Rasputin-In-Chief.

And the Grimmer Twins’ putative GOP successor, John McCain, has been out in front of the cameras all week repeatedly conflating the Iraq War – already the result of nonsensical conflation – with the regime in Iraq, long-since on the neo-cons’ to-do list. I suppose the thinking is, if the American people no longer have the stones to enter into another unwinnable confrontation half-way around the world with religious zealots at the behest of the current pair of drunk-driving draft-dodgers occupying Pennsylvania Avenue, maybe they’ll offer up the next generation of American youth to the middle-east meat-grinder for a genuine war hero like Sen. McCain.

Of course, being a genuine war hero isn’t the political slam-dunk it used to be in Ike’s day – just ask John Kerry.

I guess now that George W Bush has killed 1,000 more Americans than Osama bin Laden did on 9/11, his tiny penis must feel four inches long and fully engorged.

Emission accomplished? Not hardly.