THE JURY HAS DECIDED

There's all kinds of speculation out there, but most of it is talk designed to delay the most probable possibility: bloodbath. You can read authors like Geov Parrish holding out that tattered white surrender-flag of hope: "the resistance will continue until the Americans can find a graceful way to leave." Forget it, Geov -- the Bush regime is likely to crush Iraq even at the cost of genocide, because W. won't take "no" for an answer. Like Madeleine Albright said: "It was worth it." Wake up to history: from the massacre of the "Indians" to the slavery of Africans to the millions killed in the Philippines, the puppet regimes in Latin America, the 25-year war against Vietnam... Americans kill, and kill, and kill, and kill...

I see no signs whatsoever that the Bush regime is going to do otherwise. This Administration has a sense of hubris that will last until it leaves office......