A Lost Cause

He became the President of the United States  . . .. He took charge after a major national tragedy. . . . He set about prosecuting a war started by a preceding President . . ..  He got the United States deeply involved in this war, in an Asian country, under false pretenses . . ..  He comes from Texas. . . and his surname is a dirty double entendre.

But enough about Lyndon B. Johnson. :-O When is George W. Bush going to figure out that that Iraq is a lost cause? The voters sent him a message, but, based on his intransigent language over the past week, he clearly did not listen.

And Virginia senator-elect James Webb is mightily angry about that. So angry, in fact, that he snubbed Bush at a White House gathering of newly elected members of Congress and pointedly refused to engage in small talk with him. Webb is not one to comport himself to the pretentious protocol of Washington, and his expressions of his blunt, honest feelings about the Iraq War - particularly concerning his son, who is serving there - may be the breath of fresh air the U.S. Senate needs these days.