by Emil Guillermo

San Francisco Chronicle

01/18/05

If international politics were like one big game of Texas hold'em, then this can be said about U.S. Iraq policy: President Bush didn't have a hand. But he sure bet on it like he held the best cards in the hole -- two aces, A-A, pocket rockets. Bush sent a few rockets and U.S. troops to fight his war. But now his hand has been exposed. And he had nothing. Just a costly flop of a war. What did we lose? Not chips. At last count, nearly 1,400 U.S. military personnel have been killed; another 10,000 have come home wounded. Bush's justification for war -- that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction -- was just a stone-cold bluff. ... Last week, with a whimper ... officials announced that the search for the elusive WMD is officially over. You'll recall Bush said Saddam Hussein had them, gosh durn it, and he acted as if Saddam did...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp