CapitalistImperialistPig

Congress is now more unpopular than the President. This is bizarre but perhaps inevitable. People are impatient that Congress hasn't been able to do anything about the war, and uninterested in the investigation of Bush's crimes. It's a pity our citizens are so ignorant and unintelligent. It's also a shame that most of them don't care about our rights or our constitution. Of course I'm pretty annoyed myself.

Congress and the American people are now caught in a terrible dilemma. It is clear to the majority of each that the war in Iraq is being lost, and that the strategy with which it is being pursued is certain to get more American soldiers killed and likely to further destabilize this strategically critical region. The dilemma is occasioned by the fact that our President is determined to pursue his failed ideas and that their is no really appropriate provision in the Constitution for replacing him. Lt. Gen William E Odom was an early and prophetic critic of the Iraq war. He also was head of Army intelligence and director of the National Security Agency under Ronald Reagan. He served on the National Security Council staff under Jimmy Carter. A West Point graduate with a PhD from Columbia, Odom teaches at Yale He wrote a must-read op-ed column in the Washington Post today called Victory is Not an Option : The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that sep...