One can forgive the liar, but not the lie … perhaps. When it(they) emanates from some fool who has learned to hypocritically parrot cracker-barrel American laissez-faire entrepreneurial success anecdotes out of the mouths of Midland, Texas airheads and exploiters, it is hard to get in a forgiving mood. Particularly from this guy just out of Methodist re-hab repeating his heartfelt, redneck fixation on removing Saddam Hussein, at any cost, and from, as well, that witches’ brew of neocons who comprised the Likud-leaning Pentagon Office of Special Plans—Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Feith.

History is unforgiving on the War Thing. And the dead are slow, if ever, to.

Exactly why George, Jr., flew in the face of his father’s determination Iraq was too unstable to depose Hussein may forever remain a mystery. The Brits, who invented modern-day Iraq near the turn of the last century, knew they had cobbled together an aggregate of inherently unstable factions there. Now the new ‘Iraqi Constitution,’ simply sets out the ‘federalist’ terms for its dissolution. The Kurds, for example, having, under its terms, gained their own state and its Northern oil patch, form, unofficially, Kurdistan—as they loudly proclaim, except to the Turks who have sworn to destroy any such entity. The Sunnis, who presently make-up the majority of the insurrection against our occupation, are left completely out in the cold by the document. And they know it, and will violently reject these results. The Shia hopes for running a united, Iranian-style caliphate (leadership embodying both the secular and religious) is plainly a pipe-dream.

Well, Bush is, figuratively, back to the scene of his earliest political embarrassment, Midland, speaking of his present plummeting in the polls, from the public’s firm conviction they were lied to. They were lied to. New Jersey gubernatorial candidate, Forrester, who lost last week, points to Katrina as the final straw in revealing Bush’s incompetency.

I think that’s plausible.

But be warned. The battle is not over. As I write, they’re making new noise over both Syria and Iran, and I’m certain that were it not for the huge overdraft they’ve written in terms of military and money for Iraq, they’d be back today campaigning for further adventurism in the Middle East.

We have, however, won something. Kudos to all those both contemporary and who got on board this anti-War /Lie train by February 15, 2003. From Robert Scheer who fought the thing for years before a neo-fascist recently pushed him out at the L.A. Times, and now richly deserves his forced retirement, to all those nameless, but hardly soulless individuals, who’ve given of their time and talents to finally see his numbers go to 37% favorable ratings—or, correctly, unfavorable ratings. Time wounds all heels.