Gratuitous Video Feed (Definitely Not Iraq Edition)
Pete Seeger: “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”
“Sergeant, don’t be a Nervous Nellie,”
The Captain said to him.
“All we need is a little determination;
Men, follow me, I’ll lead on.”
We were — neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the big fool said to push on.
“Failure”
The Washington Post editorial page, conveniently silent when we went to war, has now come out against it—in a backhanded way, using the word “failure” as though such a disastrous policy ever had a chance of succeeding (whatever the latter word could possibly mean for anyone not a Halliburton executive).
“Desperate presidents resort to desperate rhetoric [...]
