Not only is today a big day for Iraq but for America and GWB. The inclusion of NATO is a body shot to the Democratic contention that Bush has body slammed allies. I think that the Democratic attacks have turned voters off anyway. From the polls, it looks like the public support has risen during these horrid attacks. Sometimes, just like the Democratic elites I hold in contempt, I think the American public is dumb and that I'm one of the few really sharp guys who sees what is going on. The facts are that time after time the American voter has seen through various slime tactics and voted accordingly. The constant attempts to link Republicans and Bush with the Nazi Party are failing, which is a great thing for all of us. Nobody should be allowed to get away with that type of a campaign.

My take on this sudden NATO involvement is that our movement of troops out of Germany and other places sensitive to European interests has had an effect. Europe is defenseless, they don't spend any money on their military and are naked at a time when they are under attack themselves. Additionally, their economies are sinking fast as both China and India will supass the EU by 2010 and SE Asia as a group is already bigger. European police are not burdened with many civil rights concerns when going after terrorists but they find themselves inundated with them anyway. Europe grabbed at the first log that came along in the flood and Bush really sandbagged them with the early turnover this morning. It was actually (cough, gag, embarrassed snort) brilliant. I have to take back quite a few posts. WTF I don't get paid for this shit so I can be wrong.

The Democrats are now falling back to "more troops on the ground" and that the NATO support amounts to "very little". I think once again The Moron outsmarted them. The Republicans seriously underestimated the power the president can bring to bear when they went after Clinton; the president can control events. Bush has shown it again today. A little note in the middle of a Washington Post story says this:

As Watson's men pursued the fighters on foot, a grenade arced over the cemetery wall and exploded beneath a Humvee. After the loss of one Humvee a week earlier, sparking a celebration by Sadr's men, the soldiers refused to surrender this one. The resulting firefight turned into a six-hour defense of a burning car. "We weren't going to let them dance on it for the news," said Capt. Ty Wilson, 31, of Fairfax, Va., who commands "Apache" Company. "Even all the guys they lost that day, that still would have given them victory. Once they saw we weren't going to leave it, though, they really stepped up the attack."

(Hat Tip Belmont Club) Make your own interpretation of the network news. Late add duToit weighs in too. If a lot of blogs sound the same today it's a good thing. We cannot lie down for charges of being storm troopers, Nazis, and liars. Bill Quick and his band of angry men are on it too. Simon, hell everybody.