It's all one big issue today.

The right wing desperately wants to minimize, or outright avoid, the Iraq issue.

John Boehner wants you to believe that running a war is like running his business: "I have benchmarks every month, but if I didn’t meet the benchmarks and if I missed the profit margin, I didn’t shut down the business." If you didn't meet your benchmarks, American soldiers weren't being murdered, you retarded asshat. Seriously, this is about as ignorant as comparing the war to a baseball game... oh, right, the GOP again...

Newt Gingrich thinks conservatives should not talk about the war - or any of the neo-con failures (Hurricane Katrina response), incompetence (Walter Reed debacle), cronyism (US Attorney scandal) - or even His Royal Idiocy King George.

Why do they want to run from openly supporting Bush's policies? Could it be his freshly-minted 28% approval rating? Or could it be:

- Our troops are under increasing stress, which is causing them to think - and, likely, act - in wantonly destructive and immoral manners whil serving our country in its occupation of Iraq. The military is desperately trying to spin this ("...I think [leadership]'s one of the strengths that the team really identified... even when people may have a bad thought, they don't act on that thought." - Maj. Gen. Gale Pollock, US Army) into some sort of positive. However, this attempt to play up the leadership of the military is so baseless that even Lou Dobbs called them on it.

- Our thoughts and well-wishes go out to the families of Greensburg, Kansas. However, the National Guard doesn't have the full allotment of people or equipment to help them recover quickly from the tornado disaster. I wonder why our National Guards don't have all their home-defense equipment... hmm... Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius reports on the crisis in her state.

- The State Department has refused to allow a whistleblower to testify in front of Congress regarding the purported validity of the Niger-Iraq uranium "sale" documents. They had an edge against the last whistleblower - they outed his wife as an undercover CIA operative in order to discredit him. They must have nothing on this guy, so they'll just silence him.

- The GOP is starting to challenge Bush on the war - even his usage of the phrase "war on terror"! Gen. George Casey is even calling it "persistent combat"!!! The LA Times, once a supporter of Bush's surge and critical of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has done an about-face, as well. They are now calling for a phased troop withdrawal based around benchmarks! Even neo-con hack Rep. Boehner will want to know what Plan B looks like if the Bush surge shows no improvements in a few months... not that his own time limits carry any weight, but it's the principle.

President Bush and the Neo-Con Agenda: Wrong on Iraq, Treasonous to America.