Well There's a F***ing Newsflash

It took James Baker, a few others on the commission, and a rising tide of unhappy people to declare that "we need a new approach". Un-freaking believable!

Bush: "we need a new approach" on Iraq:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Thursday that a new approach was required on Iraq, one day after a scathing report by the Iraq Study Group called for changing U.S. strategy.

Here's a link to Michael Yon's blog and a commentary from Joe Galloway - Duh! He states what is clear and concise. He covers his points quickly and he can, if you take the time to read other items he has written, back up what he says with a tremendous grasp of history, military tactics, and political understanding.

Politically I am a fiscal Republican and a social Democrat BUT the past few years have shown that both parties have strayed from the course that they founded their agendas upon. Somehow, there needs to be a third political party that can actually make a difference and get enough numbers to sway the Congress and Senate to do the job of actually taking care of the country and not covering their own asses.

That being said, my heart goes out to all who have family, or who have lost family, in this seemingly unending fiasco in the Middle East. Every time I hear about a death of a military member I dread the knock at our door and the door of my son's new wife. The fact that the knock hasn't taken place here does not minimize the fact that someone's door is being knocked on by sharply dressed bearers of unimaginable news.

Keep your head down Jason. I love you.

WH