The Clusterfuck Nation Chronicle

The east coast is a steambath, the Dow Jones is tanking, oil has crossed the $60 barrier, and Don Rumsfeld says the Iraq insurgency could run for twelve years.
     Taking these things in reverse order — why twelve years? Why not forever? Actually, twelve years might as well be forever. What Rummy seems to be saying to the US public is: better be prepared to keep Fort Apache going indefinitely. The part he left out was. . . “if you want to keep making that eighty-mile round trip commute from Cherokee County to Peachtree Street.”

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