Complete madness

The Washington Post has a recent story about the talk swirling in DC about war with Iran that has some quotes from Seymour Hersh's New Yorker story including this one:

"A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was 'absolutely convinced that Iran is going to get the bomb' if it is not stopped. He said that the President believes that he must do 'what no Democrat or Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do,' and 'that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.' "

Surely King George's madness had nothing on President George's.

Will talk of war with Iran finally convince the steadfast Republican supporters of President Bush that it's time to abandon ship or will they continue to go along with a foreign policy that is increasingly dangerous to our national security and morally apprehensible?

As more and more evidence pours in that the Bush Team lied their way into a war with Iraq, how long can his core of supporters continue to ignore the growing body count of our soldiers and the Iraqi people?

What will they tell the children of today in twenty years when they ask "Where were you when all of our soldiers were dying in an unjust war" much in the same way many say now looking back at Vietnam?

Democrats in Congress are not much better on this issue either. There are far too many scared to stand by Senator Russ Feingold as he makes a small attempt to reign in a president drunk on the new substance in his life - power. They seem to be waiting for the poll numbers to hit the right level before they will risk their political neck. In the meantime, soldiers risk their real necks.

A line from an old episode of The West Wing fits the Democrats in Congress perfectly about this situation. Waiting for the polls to give them cover makes them the modern day equivalent to someone watching the people of the French Revolution march by and asking, "Where are all they all going?"