Nearly four years after US led forces invaded Iraq & jughead junior declared victory, the US has experienced its worst month of casualties all year …..

With three days left in December, 109 service members have died, according to figures provided by the military & news releases of combat deaths.

The total number of US military deaths in the Iraq war stands at 2,983: a tragic statistic that, nevertheless, pales to insignificance when compared to the carnage wrought against more than 650,000 innocent Iraqis.

Meanwhile, like a modern version of the obscene Caligua, the great ditherer mimics Christmas Carols, whilst day dreaming about ‘surging’ to victory with military forces he doesn’t have: all the while encouraged by the crazed neo-cons who still sculk everywhere in Washington’s halls of power - like some malevolent, unchecked virus.

Only last week one of those Washington free-enterprise "thinktanks" - that usually spend their time explaining that global warming is a myth & that widening the disparities of wealth is the best way to help the poor - suggested that America could solve the Iraq crisis by sending in another 200,000 troops.

Putting aside the logistical problems that such a deployment would involve, one thing has to be said in favour of the strategy: all pretence at liberation has finally been abandoned. The sort of people who guided the coalition into the quagmire have decided that the only way to get out is to impose the will of the western powers by force on a reluctant - or downright hostile - people.

It doesn’t matter what it’s called. Bushit is determined to pursue his insane “surge”: a “new way forward" ….. a "great leap forward" ….. a "long walk off a short pier" ….. launching a precipitous escalation of the war, whilst conspiring with adolf olmert, “aussie tony” & our rodent to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran.

This, in spite of overwhelming public sentiment against such a policy: only 11 percent of Americans support the idea of escalation, as a new CNN poll reports.

This is an astounding level of public opposition to any government policy: unprecedented in US politics & history. The fact that the maniac in the outhouse is willing to undertake an action that 89 percent of the American people oppose – & what's more, an action that is guaranteed to cost the lives of many Americans and many billions from the public treasury – is a glaring indication of how completely anti-democratic the neo-cons are, & how utterly dysfunctional the US "democratic" system has become.

George Bush & his criminal accomplices have succeeded only in transforming the so-called beacon of democracy into the world’s greatest terrorist state.