O’Reilly on his show last night:

The Bush administration must come to grips with the true character of Iraq and begin to change strategy. The safety of the American military must become the top priority. The interest of the Iraqis themselves second. Unlike Afghanistan, where the majority of people seem to be cooperating with America, the Iraqis lay back, perhaps traumatized by decades of Saddam’s oppression.

Understandable, but not acceptable. If these people won’t help us, we need to get out in an orderly manner.

It’s not surprising that once people started dying for this cause on a larger scale O’Reilly would get cold feet. He’s the very definition of a chicken-hawk. Those of us who said from the beginning that we never should have invaded owe Bill a great big, “We told you so.” I am disgusted that people are dying every day for this fake war, now O’Reilly’s starting to realize we were right. Why does it take so many body bags to convince people?

O’Reilly was wrong about the invasion, and he’s wrong about tucking our tail between our legs and running away now that his war is on. We started this war. Starting a war is a huge deal. We cannot run away from it. We need the rest of the world to help us fix this, but this President has shown he is incapable of doing such a thing.

This is The United States vs Iraq. It would be a different story if it were The World vs Iraq. If the rest of the world was united in this effort there would be no wavering, no second thoughts. All of these doubts would have been dealt with before an invasion. As it stands the world now hates us for ignoring them, for accusing them of being “with the terrorists”, for not going along with the fiction that Saddam was responsible for 9/11.

So, what’s the quickest way to “fix” Iraq? Step one is to get a President that hasn’t told the rest of the world to (in so many words) “fuck off.” The entire Bush administration needs to be removed from office. If we impeached the president, we would be left with the puppet-master instead of the puppet. That’s not a solution.

Unfortunately we have to wait until November to get the whole team out. If Watergate was a cancer on the Presidency, this Presidency is a cancer on America.