Quote of the Day

"I have reached the tentative conclusion that a significant portion of this administration, maybe even including the vice president, believes Iraq is lost. They have no answer to deal with how badly they have screwed it up. I am not being facetious now. Therefore, the best thing to do is keep it from totally collapsing on your watch and hand it off to the next guy -- literally, not figuratively."

Senator Joe Biden

A lot of other people I have spoken to have concluded the same thing. The White House is playing kill the clock and let someone else deal with the problem. It's a matter of judgement whether that is any worse than being under the McCain-Lieberman illusion that Iraq is still winnable. The neoconservative have jumped off the sinking ship a long time ago.