the rix mix

Tonight, Bush will attempt to distract us from Iraq by offering a domestic agenda. But after years of guns, calling for butter only reminds me of a famous scene from the x-rated version of Last Tango In Paris. Taxing "excessive" health insurance? He's so wealthy he could pay for brain surgery with a debit card. Cutting federal aid to urban public hospitals? These are his solutions to the health care crisis. Alternative fuels? He's been assuming Iraq's oil reserves are the alternative fuels. Leave the domestic agenda to the Democrats & a few relatively empathetic Repugs.

The Decider's problem, & our's, is that it's no longer possible to make this stinking war smell like an antiseptic enterprise. Show us the blood & misery, the mangled bodies. Show us the coffins coming off the cargo jets on conveyor belts, & the hidden wards of the military hospitals. Show us the morgues - & the funerals in the graveyards of Iraq & in the cemetaries at the edges of our own town & cities. The terrible truth will not be hidden or disguised. We cannot turn away from it.