A Failure to Communicate?

I'm pretty sure that the American people thought they were sending the Republican Party and the Bush administration a message during the last election, but he Republicans just do not seem to have received that message. The Iraq War funding bill that included a measure to start bringing our troops home from this senseless war has been rejected by the President and his veto has been upheld by his Congressional minions.

"Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the Republican minority leader, urged members to sustain the president’s veto by voting against the bill. 'Why is winning in Iraq so important?' Mr. Boehner asked. 'In my view and others, al Qaeda has made Iraq the central front in their war with us.'” [New York Times]

Now wait, did I read that right? Boehner says that al Qaeda made Iraq the central front on their war with us? Is Boehner smoking crack? Al Qaeda did not make Iraq the "central front," we did or should I say Bush administration did! Al Queda didn't have a "central front" until they provided one with their unjustified, ill-conceived, and horribly executed invasion of Iraq. Only after they set up the "central front" for them did al Qaeda take advantage of it and kill off several thousand American soldiers. Somebody want to tell me why it was such a great idea to give a terrorist organization a "central front?" And if it is a good idea to "fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" then what the heck was wrong with Afghanistan, home of al Qaeda?

The answer is simple; there is no good reason, just as there is no good justification for this war. The problem is that Boehner and the rest of the Republican party are terribly afraid that, if they admit that they are wrong and that this so-called war cannot be won, they will look like fools who have wasted American lives on a war that was based on a lie and never should have been waged. Unfortunately for them, and for our troops, the Republicans do not understand that they look even more foolish for staying the course when the American people have already overwhelmingly told them that this is the wrong course.

My guess is that, in the end, the American political landscape will have to be rendered as devoid of Republicans as the desert of Iraq was of weapons of mass destruction. Maybe then Boner Boehner and the Bush Boys will finally get the message.