Reply #5: Agreed. I also think that the IMgate scandal will . . . [View All]

[MrModerate]

Die pretty quickly in the sense of and end to hysterical minute-by-minute updates, logoed bulletins, and round tables of shouting heads sniping at each other to overexpress their disgust. It has, however, become one of the threads of this election's tawdry tapestry, and we'll certainly have that banner continuously waved in our faces -- for a few more weeks, at least.

Woodwardgate is with us for the long haul, even though it will also fall off the media's radar screens and be swept up with all the other election-related chafalfah. However, it is a signpost marking the inevitable decline of Bush's credibility and will probably be more cited 10 years from now than other books with similarly shocking revelations about this administrations malfeasances, misfeasances, and nonfeasances. I'm afraid that the Woodward/Bush trilogy will become the "standard work" for people trying to figure this whole mess out, starting 20 years or so from now. I haven't read more than excerpts from any of the volumes, but by report, that's going to do a disservice to history.

But you can't always choose your signposts.

However, regardless of what happens with Foley, Woodward, or Bush, the soldiers will still be uselessly dead, the maimed will remain pointlessly maimed, the tens of thousands of unnecessarily dead Iraqis (and the hundreds of thousands more to come?) will never walk the earth again, and THAT's the important thing that happened this week.