What's it gonna take?

A simple question, how far will the Iraq debacle disintegrate before all the pro war drum beaters start to shut up and listen to the people who haven't been wrong about nearly everything for the last 6 years?

As the death toll rolls on past 350 for this week, Bush will be visiting India to try and sell a nuclear power deal. In doing so, I find myself wondering if he'll have a chance to get a glimpse at the more impoverished areas of India. The kind of unfathomable poverty that us westerners simply do not understand or register as existing in a civilized country. The funny thing is that India's going through a supposed economic boom, fuelled by tech industries and outsourcing, but the income disparity is brutal; the same kind of vast divide that is widening in America as we speak.

I wonder if he'll see one of the families that live their entire life in a garbage dump, collecting scraps of material to sell for the ten dollars or less a week they live on, only minutes after passing a few of India's new economic winners. I also wonder if Bush will ask himself if his 250 billion dollar war in Iraq could have been money well spent elsewhere, especially now as his poll numbers waver into the low thirties and his war of choice degenerates further.

I'm a realist, so I doubt it. I don't even really think Bush makes those connections anymore. If he ever did...