Okay. As I read the Times today and read about the President declaring victory in Iraq, I can't help but ask one question:

Did we ever find any chemical weapons? I mean, really. Not some stuff that might or might not be used to make one - did we find fully assembled chemical weapons that were at a stage to be launched?

Okay, I can't help myself. One more question:

So does that mean that we measure success by the apparent breakdown of government (since we can't seem to find Saddam - hmm...sounds like the war on another threat to national security) or do we measure success based on what the Administration "sold" the country on - which was that the threat of chemical and biological weapons was so real that we had to go in there and stop it?

Um, yeah. Someone please explain it to me before we start to take out other "rogue states" such as Syria and Iran, 'cause you know that's coming next. Looks like Bush finally looked at a history book - if he stays at war and "wins" the war against terrorism, he doesn't have time to worry about the economy and can control his wartime popularity - just keep it going. That's how you win a second term.

Oh, and funny how Dick Cheney's former firm gets the winning bid on rebuilding Iraq.

Are you F*!@$ing kidding me?!!? Are you kidding me?

The media is not fooling me. The Administration certainly isn't.

So based on what was said today, let me announce to all of you right now that WE'RE WINNING THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM BECAUSE WE'VE COMPLETELY RUINED TWO COUNTRIES' EXISTING SYSTEMS AND PUT OUR OWN IN PLACE OF IT BECAUSE THEY WILL BETTER CATER TO OUR NEEDS.

Forget the fact that we can't find Osama, the most dangerous man in the world, or Saddam, the second-most. Nope, what matters is us getting our way. Just like with Boutrous-Boutrous Ghali and Koffi Annan (if you don't know who the two of these men are, then you probably believe what Fox News tells you) and the Human Rights Convention, and the Kyoto Treaty, and we might as well add Syria and Iran to the list.

Hmm, systematically getting rid of the Arab countries does seem to be making the United States safer, after all, we also just shifted our "Code Orange Terror Alert".

Get real, America. Open your eyes. I support the troops, for chrissakes, they are doing their jobs. But I cannot support a president who will continue to put them in harm to protect a way of life that seems to be getting us into a lot of trouble. I realize that they are fighting for my right to oppose this war, but go back to the top of this list and ask yourself the two questions I asked. Try to answer them. Perhaps then you might be just as frustrated and angry as I am at the serious and honest lack of "Strategery" this Administration follows.

Or perhaps you should be angry, revolutionized, and shocked to find out that it isn't a lack of strategy at all. Where are we headed? Mull over that.