when it rains, it pours

support for the bush regime keeps unravelling. it gladdens my heart, though i often think "too late, the damage has been done, and we're stuck with another 3 years of disaster-making". but maybe the unravelling will put a stop to creating new disasters. maybe.

today's contribution comes from col. lawrence wilkerson, top aide to former secretary of state colin powell. full transcript is here, or you can watch the video.

he is utterly scathing in his criticism of the cheney-rumsfeld "cabal" as he calls it.

"If you're unilaterally declaring Kyoto dead, if you're declaring the Geneva Conventions not operative, if you're doing a host of things that the world doesn't agree with you on and you're doing it blatantly and in their face, without grace, then you've got to pay the consequences."

and

And I would say that we have courted disaster, in Iraq, in North Korea, in Iran, generally with regard to domestic crises like Katrina, Rita and I could go on back, we haven’t done very well on anything like that in a long time. And if something comes along that is truly serious, truly serious, something like a nuclear weapon going off in a major American city, or something like a major pandemic, you are going to see the ineptitude of this government in a way that will take you back to the Declaration of Independence. Read it some time again.

this is exactly what i was worried about

iraq is helping to radicalise and draw some young muslims into violence, says jean-louis bruguiere, a top french terrorism investigator.

fuck. enough about politics for the day; it's too damn depressing. i must cut some firewood.