"Obviously the violence in Baghdad is still terrible

and therefore there needs to be more troops." george bush 25 July 2006. One of the greatest military and diplomatic minds of the 21st century, cutting to the chase and laying out the republican plan of action for all the world to see.

:eyes:

:puke:

:grr:

:argh:

:nuke:

I hope there wasn't some hidden meaning there.

failure is overwhelming. Six years in office. Thousands dead. Deteriorating prospects.

Barring a miraculous reversal of fortunes in Baghdad, Sen. Byron Dorgan said yesterday on Diane Rehm's program on NPR that the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shias are increasingly likely to create separate states out of "Iraq." Biden has has used even stronger language in this prediction.

Apart from the PNAC vampires, I haven't heard any ringing endorsements of U.S policy in the Middle East for a while now, even from Republicans, especially Republicans on November's ballot, and all this is before we get to Condi Rice petulantly refusing to call for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict.

Doing the same thing over and over with the expectation of a different result each time.