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Reina's been gone for 3 days now.

Reina's been gone since Sunday night. She's been taking this class at UCLA, a pre-dental perceptual ability class. Pretty neat class idea, actually. But it's four whole days at UCLA.

It's amazing how what would normally seem like so little time (4 days. I go weeks and months sometimes without talking to you. And the fact that I can say that without specifying who you are says something.) seems so long when you're suddenly without someone.

Dustin, Reina's friend, said he relishes trips like these, where he can get away from his girl. I don't know, I think that says something too.

Anyway. Come back soon, butty.

posted by Doug 12:25 AM

Bush Gave A Speech Today...

Side-note: *Looks like my comments system is DOA. sigh.*

A little background:
... reiterating the same things he's been saying for months. We need to stay in Iraq, we can't set a time-table, we need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. His approval ratings have plummeted past 50%, almost to Abu-Ghraib scandal levels. Less than 50% of Americans believe we should stay in Iraq much longer. Only 70% of Republicans believe we need to stay there "as long as it takes" (down from 90%) which means he's losing a big chunk of his core supporters. Dick Cheney said a couple said a few days ago "The insurgency is in its last throes." I'd like a clear definition of a last throe. Donald Rumsfeld said a couple days after Cheney's comment that we're looking at "5, 8, maybe 10 years." That's a long throe.

Look. We fucked up. And by we, I mean the Bush administration and anybody who thought it was a good idea to go to Iraq. And by fuck up, I mean send thousands of people to their deaths unneccessarily. Still, to fuck up is one thing. To fuck up and run away is another thing entirely. You break it, you buy it. It is now our responsibility to fix what we screwed up there. So do I like all these calls for a time-table? No. We stay to we fix it.

Wait, is this Doug agreeing with Bush? Not quite. Let me explain. What's missing here? Here's the key phrase: "Fix it." Fix what? What does fixed mean? Bush says we stay until we succeed, but define success so I know it when I see it, you know? Is success when the insurgents our defeated? You're looking at a longer and tougher battle than we have resources to fight (Check your Armed Forces recruiting numbers. Bleak.) Is success when the Iraqi forces are capable to fighting insurgents on their own? That sounds a little more reasonable, but you're still looking at years and a LOT more deaths. I just want a definition. Give me a little more than 'evil bad, kill evil.'

Look, I know why (even if I don't agree with why) we went to Iraq. To erroneously search for WMDs, to get back at the terrorists (I don't want to get into how Iraq only became a bastion of terrorist activity AFTER we attacked), to overturn a dictator, for their oil maybe. But tell me why we're STILL THERE. I know we're not done. But someone define what done is.

posted by Doug 10:32 PM

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