Did We Sign Up for This?

Perhaps it's best just to let Molly Ivins have at it...

Another record: We have already lost more American soldiers (488) in Iraq in 239 days of this year than we did in 287 days last year (482) – when there was a "war" on, and before our mission was "accomplished."

The grind of the numbers is so relentless. Price of gasoline – pressing $50 a barrel. Poverty rate – increased again, third year in a row. Number of Americans without insurance – increased again, third year. Part of the "vibrant economy" Bush touts daily now. And the news from Iraq just keeps getting worse and worse.

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An enterprising student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Devon Largio, has done an honors thesis delineating 27 separate rationales advanced by the administration for the war in Iraq. The only one left, of course, is "Saddam was a bad guy" – in other words, the human rights argument, the only one specifically rejected by the administration before the war.

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Meanwhile, at Bush's "Ask President Bush" events being staged around the country, only Bush supporters are allowed in. This results in such tough questions as, "This is the very first time that I have felt God was in the White House."

Did any of us sign up for this four years ago?

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