Last night G and I were talking, and I’d like to share a couple of our thoughts. First of all, about the U.S. death toll in Iraq. A couple things. First of all, congress was to get a report on the success or failure of the surge in July. The Iraqi parliament has not met benchmarks. As far as the surge helping Iraq to establish it’s government and democracy, it’s a failure. I think Bush planned for this. He knew as far as the benchmarks go, it wouldn’t be good news. So how could he make it good news??

While taking questions after his speech in the Rose Garden on May 24th, (the one where Cheney was lurking in the bush) out of the clear blue he stated:

And so, yes, it could be a bloody — it could be a very difficult August, and I fully understand –

Why would he say that? Why August???? Why not July…..or September. Why August?

Now consider this……. what was the MSM spitting out all over the place come August 1st? How about this……

U.S. Troop Deaths Show Sharp Decline in July

And now, we have 23 U.S. deaths in the first 7 days of August.

I have to wonder what he knew in May. Why did he think August would be so bloody? Could it be that they withheld numbers in July so that they’d be able to say Oh look….. a sharp decline in U.S. deaths! The surge is working!! And in doing this, they’d have to report the deaths in August…….hence a bloody August. It’s not like it’s never been done before. During the Vietnam war it was done.

Conspiracy theory…….call it what you will. Six years ago I wouldn’t have been there. But I’m there now. I don’t trust this administration. Everything they do is calculated to make things look the way they want them to look. To work the way they want them to work. They will say and do anything to make it so. I think sometimes Bush fucks up and says things that give us clues what they are doing. And I think his bloody August comment was one of those clues. I can picture him and Cheney and Rove sitting and cooking this shit up. Ok…..we need things to look good in July because those Iraqis aren’t going to meet any benchmarks. Ohhhhhh let’s have less U.S. deaths. Ya, that’s the ticket.

Call me crazy, but this is the administration that has brought us illegal wiretapping, torture at Abu Ghraib, rendition and torture, the U.S. attorney scandal, the outting of a CIA agent, more signing statements than ever before, the Military Commission Act, the use of executive privledge at inappropriate times (Pat Tillman) , a President and Vice President who think they are accountable to no one and above the law, a guy who thinks the Geneva convention is “quaint”, secrets and lies beyond belief. Not to mention lying us into this war. I put nothing past them.

Oh, and the saddest part of all, Americans buy into this crap. A poll conducted last weekend showed Americans who think the surge is working up to 31% from 22% a month ago. That decline in U.S. deaths in July (which is really no decline at all), worked. Go figure……

Next up……what do we do to stop this madness?