[Comrade]

http://www.palaceofreason.com/Curmud..._bad_news.html

Yeah, thing are going really bad. :rolleyes:

# Iraq has been largely reconstituted, with political authority -- "sovereignty" -- handed over to the Iraqis themselves. It has a secular constitutional framework and a functioning interim government that's already planning a full set of elections. That government has custody of Saddam Hussein and is fully responsible for dealing with him. France, the principal supporter of Hussein's Baathist regime, has a lot of egg on its face. # Several knowldegeable and credible authorities have testified that yes, Saddam Hussein was still operating a development program for nuclear weapons and other banned weapons, right up to the eve of war. Collateral discoveries of partially enriched uranium and mechanisms for dealing with it provide additional confirmation. President Bush's famous "16 words" have been vindicated by multiple sources. # U.S. troop presence in Iraq is being slowly drawn down. Insurgents' violent attacks are reaping almost no American lives. # Afghanistan, despite some residual troubles, appears to be settling into stability. The remnants of the Taliban have bid to be restored to power, but the Afghani people appear to have had enough of executions of young women for learning to read and write. # Several promised realignments of our overseas forces, involving Germany, Poland, and South Korea, are under way, with no negative repercussions whatsoever. # After its spate of saber rattling earlier this year over Taiwan's elections, Red China has settled into a sullen silence. North Korea is now ringed by American warships that will interdict any shipment of nuclear weapons technology from that unhappy land. # Israel's security fence is having the desired effect; even Palestinian terrorists are admitting it. The Israeli / Palestinian impasse appears headed for resolution, for this reason alone. Palestinian-aligned Europe is impotently furious. # The American economic picture grows ever rosier: unemployment continues to fall, real after-tax wages per hour worked continue to increase, and productivity per worker has reached an incredible height. # Various components of national political opinion, including the bellwether subjects of affirmative action, partial-birth abortion and homosexual marriage, have turned unmistakably in the conservative direction. President Bush's unprecedented rebuff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose key figures have done their best to slander him at every opportunity, has been met with overwhelming popular approval. # Joseph Wilson has been revealed as an incompetent fraud, Richard Clarke and Richard Ben-Veniste have been shown to be pompous poseurs, and Jamie Gorelick has turned out to be the very person responsible for the wall between the intelligence agencies that made the Black Tuesday atrocities possible. Leftists who've tried to defame the president, his administration, and conservatives generally have been revealed as liars, frauds, and in a couple of cases as outright criminals, albeit unindicted. Their hysterical "fascism" rhetoric receives no respect from any decent person; they're incapable of producing even one substantive example in support of their accusations.