All good signs. 

One of WingNuttytans most intolerant and increasingly incoherent hypocrites is disturbed by Kerry's behavior in smacking Bush on Iraq, calling a stooge a stooge, and choosing (as he has since the '70's) to try and spare the lives of our troops at the possible risk of injuring their supposedly delicate feelings.

If Dean Esmay is disturbed by whatever Kerry is doing, it must be effective.  Bill Saletan (Yes I can call him "Bill" because the chances of him actually reading my blog are remote at best.) thinks Kerry is doing great and only offers some gentle advice and fine tuning suggestions.  I hope the chances that Kerry reads Bill are greater than Bill reading me.

David A. has a direct yet polite rebuke to Dean's wish that we just go along with the charade manufactured by the man behind the curtain -- for the sake of the children (who by the way are grown men and women trained in the fine art of killing.)  And just what is Dean afraid of by not coming out and saying he thinks Kerry is a traitor?  That is what he's just dying to say.

It's called tough love.  You use it on any addictive personality, and Bush is addicted to his manifestly failed and doomed course.  But of course untreated former alcoholics like Dean and Bush refuse to acknowledge tried and true methods of dealing with delusions.  Step One of Twelve:  Admit there is a problem.

Cheeze Wiz, What kind of pansies do the Bush Apologists think our troops are?  David A. evidently hasn't felt the full wrath of Dean's arbirary and capricious behavior yet. (hint: he doesn't publish it and removes any traces from his blog, denies any untoward behavior, remains sanctimoneous, and neither explains nor apologizes.  You won't find Utopia at Dean's World, only neo-contopians.

And as for questioning Kerry's honest evaluations in a diplomatic setting, just remember the war of words Bush started by calling Kim Jong Il a "little tyrant?"  Sure the toad was accurately described, but he is the leader of an undisputably sovereign nation (which DOES have WMD's).  One with whom we are attempting to engage in fruitful negotiations. 

Allawi is Bush's appointed caretaker reciting GOP talking points, not the representative of any kind of democracy or even a truly sovereign nation.  There has yet to even be an attempt at FloriDUH style balloting there.  Calling the stooge on his delusions is not nearly as bad as calling him names.  Let's not even discuss the "Old Europe" crack that alienated half of Western Europe. 

I can't for the life of me understand why it is perfectly excusable to treat France, our first great ally and a pillar of western democracy, like they are a nation that harbors terrorists, and yet suck up to Saudi Arabia, where the terrorists actually came from.  Tell me again how this whole thing isn't about oil, I forget sometimes.