One might almost think these people were on the DoD payroll, that Gates was their boss, that Bush was their CinC, wouldn't one, the way they act.

Seems to me that this was supposed to be over, done, 4 years ago. It is a measure of the lack of conscience, the lack of morality, the lack of any sense of decency, that Conservatives can even hold their heads up, let alone talk about how well the war is going. Face it, the True Believers have no credibility, having lied so much, so often, so deeply and so persistently even when demonstrably wrong.

By the way, how is Iraq going to do without the intelligentsia and professional classes, now that anyone would could leave the country has left the country. Do you think those factions will give up as long as the US is there?

And do you think there will be monuments to Bush after the US has been driven out? That there may be "The Decider High School", or "Dick Cheney Correctional Center"? The "Condi Rice School of Duplicity" at the "Donald Rumsfeld Universerary"?

Do you think that it will be safe for Americans to walk down the street, or that they'll be drowned in rose petals by a grateful population?

Arf