I protest.

Finally. And a rant.

Via pie at Atrios' Eschaton: Kerry Slams 'Wrong War in the Wrong Place.'

Last Thursday night I hoped for him to finally take a position on the war in Iraq. I was disappointed then but today, at last, he did so.

Democrat John Kerry accused President Bush on Monday of sending U.S. troops to the "wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time" and said he'd try to bring them all home in four years. … "We want those troops home, and my goal would be to try to get them home in my first term," Kerry said, speaking to a fellow Vietnam War veteran at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania who had asked about a timetable for withdrawal.

Of course, "Bush rebuked him for taking "yet another new position" on the war." You know, Bush can struggle and whine all he wants, but the fact remains that American soldiers are dying at the rate of almost two a day and Bush doesn't give a damn. What is his plan for Iraq? He says that Kerry "is against it again," but, tell me, just what is Bush planning to do to get us out of the quagmire he got us into? He attacks Kerry but, as usual, has nothing whatsoever to say for himself. Except, of course, for "ignore the last four years and give me another chance."

Well, Dubya, you fooled us once. You're not going to get another chance.

Ignore the polls. Ignore the doomsayers. Bush is through. There is no area whatsoever in which he is succeeding; the economy hasn't improved, soldiers are dying in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Al Qaeda is alive and well and killing people, his promise of "four million new jobs" is five million jobs behind, the federal government has a new record deficit, poor people are getting more poor and the middle class are becoming poor themselves, and all the while Bush and his friends are gorging themselves at the public trough.

You know that billion that they "can't find" in Iraq? If you're an American citizen, that's your billion. All those "no bid" contracts? It's your money that Halliburton and Bechtel are stealing. Meanwhile the soldiers themselves eat MREs and die in unarmored Humvees.

To date, George W. Bush, President of the United States, has attended not one funeral. He sends them off to die but when they do so, or when they return maimed in body and mind, he doesn't care. He cuts their benefits.

Yet he criticizes Kerry.

The only ones who will support him on November 2 are those who either stand to benefit from his actions or are too stupid, shortsighted or deluded to see him for what he is. He's not a leader, he's just a coward. He's not the "godly man" certain religious folks think him, he's a hypocrite who at best only adheres to his religion when it's convenient and doesn't interfere with what he really wants, and at worst uses his religion to justify actions that otherwise could not be justified. And, finally, he's certainly not the "good old boy" everyman he likes to try to appear to be. He was raised in luxury, he has never wanted for anything in his life, everything he has was given him and when he has failed he has been rescued from his failures. In every moment of his life, he has taken advantage of his family's power and connections and the only, only reason he's in the White House right now is because his last name is Bush.

Anyone with even a tiny amount of honor would shun him and those who support him.

And, like the last President Bush, he will be needing a new job in January. I suspect he could find something that more matches his capabilities in, say, the sanitation area.