Screwball triumvirate

I read about half an hour ago that the dingbat Vice President again was speaking of how we liberated Afghanistan. Maybe more than dingbat, it's "blind as a bat." Aware people all around the globe know that Afghanistan is the world capital of heroin production. The Taliban have resurrected. Suicide bombers compete with their counterparts in Iraq. US guards protect president Karzai while the warlords really rule the country.

And now I find these words in a hard-hitting article by Robert Scheer in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle:

"in his speeches, Bush clings to the notion that the battle against terrorism is going well because, according to his spin, we have been able to eliminate it in Afghanistan and are now destroying the last vestiges of this scourge in Iraq. On his visit to Kabul last month, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld elaborated on this absurdity by declaring bloody, backward Afghanistan as a 'model' of progress in the war on terrorism -- even as he was admitting that 'Iraq is several years behind.'"

It is not just a cabal there in the White House. it is a nut farm.