How much failure will they take?

It's almost like an American coup d'etat. The military has long opposed Bush in private and one gets a sense that the public outcry from our uniformed services is just beginning. The irony is that Bush's staunchest defenders on Iraq don't necessarily support his policies there; they are just protecting that flank in defense of their real concerns: opposition to abortion, stem-cell research, gay rights. The question is, how much death, destruction and abysmal failure will the religious right wing accept in defense of their primary concerns? The answer is that there's no limit. Like their fundamentalist brothers in the Islamic camp, Christian fundamentalists are value their petty pieties more than life.