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Sometimes the only thing you can do is howl:

I’m sitting here trying to find the words I need to describe these emotions that I feel because I know how I feel. I know I’m not the only one who feels that way. And I know that the man — the person — the allegedly human being — responsible doesn’t have a single damn clue about what he’s doing to real people.

And I don’t think he’d care if he did.

He’s an active voice decider in the first person, but things only go wrong for him in the third person passive. He’s the one who’s right and anyone who disagrees is wrong, and he knows that’s the way it really is way deep down in his twisted little truthy gut. He’s right, the rest of us are wrong, so it’s fine to sneer at opponents and blame them for the things that he’s doing now.

And that’s why I read this morning that 15000 troops will be extended in Iraq. That’s why I read this morning that 13000 troops in National Guard and Reserve units that have deployed once already are being told that they’re going back into the box. And that’s why I read this morning that President George W. Bush said today that if Congress doesn’t do what he — George Bush — wants Congress to do, “some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines” and other military families “could see their loved ones headed back to war sooner than anticipated” and that “this is unacceptable.”

Yes, he really said that.

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And this is where words leave me, and where emotions overwhelm me. People I know, people I love, are caught up in this madness, but this twisted little freak is acting like it’s a game. He’s standing up there, he’s ignoring his mistakes that got us there, he’s demanding that we ignore his mistakes and let him keep doing whatever the hell he wants because he’s the Decider-in-Chief, and real people, real families, are left twisting in the wind because we’re the leverage that he hopes will force Congress to bow to his royal will.

The writer’s wife is serving in Iraq now.