Replies

Another example:

Murderous Quagmire
By "Automatic Bob" Herbert

Right now there is no viable plan for securing the peace in Iraq, and no exit strategy.

We don't know where we're heading. We don't know how many troops it will take to get us there. And we don't know how to get out.
The president who displayed his contempt for Iraqi militants two years ago with the taunt "bring 'em on" had to go on television Tuesday night to urge Americans not to abandon support for the war that he foolishly started but can't figure out how to win. Mr. Bush's Top Gun moment aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln was two and a half years ago. It was another example of the president in fantasyland. This guy is something. Remember his Top Gun moment aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln? And his famous taunt -- "Bring 'em on" -- to the insurgents in Iraq?

We're holding a terrible hand. There is no exit strategy for American troops in Iraq.

President Bush continues to assert that our goal in Iraq is "victory." Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently told Tim Russert that things were going "very, very well" in Iraq. They are still crawling toward the mirage. It's time to give reality a chance.

The president continues to behave as if he's in denial about the war.
During the run-up to war, the public heard ominous references to mushroom clouds and was encouraged to believe there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Sept. 11. Condoleezza Rice went on television to say with a straight face, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

A genuine sense of alarm can actually be detected in the reality-resistant hierarchy of the Bush administration.
Does President Bush even tip his hat to reality as he goes breezing by?