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Like a stone hitting the water, another term for George W. Bush will likely send shockwaves around the globe... and the emphasis there is on shock.

An example here on the type of spin he's throwing out (and that people are actually digesting):

Subject: The missing explosives in Iraq.
Facts:
The explosives were visited by US forces before they were looted.
The explosives were supposed to be put under US surveillance.
The explosives were not under US guard.
The lack of US prescence at al Qaqaa has already been attributed to two causes: a fault in the chain of command, and a lack of US forces available for guard duty.

What Bush is saying:
The explosives may have been looted before the US arrived at the al Qaqaa depot.
The US forces are guarding the depot.
There is no fault in the chain of command, and there is more than enough soldiers in Iraq to guard all major objective points (mostly oil stations, but military storehouses should have been a higher priority).

And then he goes on to say that Kerry is badmouthing the armed forces in Iraq.
Hmmm... I don't know where the bigger diss is, Kerry acknowledging that military forces are currently inadequate for all their roles in Iraq, or Bush spinning things so terribly that the opposite becomes true of the truth.

My head hurts after thinking this...

Bush getting elected for another term will likely cause a spontaneous head explosion in the less-than neocon population, as four years of absolute hell in a fascist's paradise was bad enough. Another four will be proof that somebody upstairs doesn't like us, and will let the man have his go at making a New Rome (actually, they call in PNAC now, the Project for the New American Century). Think of it.

100 years of neocon rule, where you must be Christian, you must be devout, and you must serve your own interests above those of the less fortunate. To some this would be heaven... yeah, all 50 of you. For the rest of us:

There is no place on Earth that is safe. I'd be thinking that Mars would be the next best thing.