Wishful thinking

Robert Parry always has some interesting insights and historical big-picture perspective on the American right, and left as well.

As the U.S. death toll in Iraq surges, the Bush administration has returned to the two constants that have guided the war from the start -- deception and wishful thinking. New false arguments for staying the course have joined tantalizing suggestions of troop withdrawals just around the corner. But the bigger question is what can the American people do now?

Find out his answer to that question.