For the U.S., It's Really More Than 50,000 Dead and Wounded for Bush's Personal Sociopathic Obsession 1/4

Bush Who Became President Through a Supreme Court Coup Now Conducts a Soviet-Style Pentagon Coup, Purging Dissenters from His Sociopathological War from the Ranks of Generals. Here is a Loser Who Spent the Vietnam War Snorting Coke, Womanizing, and Being AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard Second Guessing the Military. Madness. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was elected America's first female speaker of the House yesterday in a raucous, bipartisan celebration of a historic breakthrough, and hours later she presided over passage of the broadest ethics and lobbying revision since the Watergate era. 1/5 The Jewish Daily Forward: "Israeli Experts Say Middle East Was Safer With Saddam in Iraq." 1/5

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said yesterday that he believes top officials in the Bush administration have privately concluded they have lost Iraq and are simply trying to postpone disaster so the next president will "be the guy landing helicopters inside the Green Zone, taking people off the roof." 1/6