Musings 13...Oh, well...

It seems that Mr. President in not going to get his social security privatization package through congress this year. Senate majority leader Frist and House enforcer Tom Delay are talking about next year. Apparently, the good senators and representatives have been receiving bunches of negative responses to Mr. President's private accounts. Maybe the public are not as dumb as they think they are. Oh, well...

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I think this pretty much speaks for itself. Oh, well...

It seems that Secretary Rumsfeld is afraid to put a number on the amount of insurgents that are opposing us in Iraq. When we first went in, it seems to me, that the number was about 5,000. I distinctly remember he and other neo-cons using this figure. Well, anyway, Iraqi intelligence service director General Mohammed Abdullah Shahwani says: "I think the resistance is bigger than the U.S. military in Iraq. I think the resistance is more than 200,000." He went on to say that 40,000 were hard-cored fighters and the rest were part-time fighters and sympathizers. I'd be afraid of those numbers too. (see article)Oh, well...

There is the ever-shifting position of why we are in Iraq. The rightwing blowhards are quick to point out that Saddam killed hundreds of thousands and buried them in the dessert. Bad Saddam, bad Saddam, but that was not why we went into Iraq. It was all about WMD's. Oh, well...

On a lighter note I just read about the new nickel. (see article)To which I say...Oh, well...