Iraqmire

History presents a tragedy, and repeats it as farce, except when a horrible folly becomes both simultaneously. The rampaging procession of assassinations, the brutal, senseless and painful deaths and irreversible injuries, the mindless, brutalizing destruction all continue to spread like an occult plague, the "insurgents" taunt and tempt American soldiers on video, the upcoming "elections" appear more and more surreal, more "coalition" countries, NGOs and for-profit companies are getting out while they have someone left alive, flare through the news so fast no one could keep up and remain sane. So what can you say about today's report that the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is over? Laugh while you weep, or sneer while you throw up?

And to think we're just starting to see the brutalization all this causes here at "home." Iraq veterans already homeless on city streets, another partisan corporate-friendly Homeland Security chief appointed in a hail of toughness adjectives to preside over stamping out dissent and privacy while enriching corporate friends, while another generation gets destroyed, including families of servicepeople, which is yet another innovation of the neocon regime and their ageold philosophy of attrition of poor suckers to benefit the rich.

It's so bad that elements of the Iraqnam coalition in Washington are turning on each other. Politicians of course, but also within the "national security" apparatus: the FBI turning on the CIA turning on the Pentagon turning on itself:

This story from the Center for American Progress, a few days old but not widely reported, quotes the head of the Army reserve as saying the reserve and National Guard are being destroyed by the "dysfunctional policies" of the Bushie Pentagon.

So when a tsunami hits American shores, whose national guard will be turn to for help? Iraq's?