[Torie]

What is the relevance of that? Yes, the first step of the mission was accomplished, and the sign lacked nuance, and should not have been put it. I am confident Kerry might well show it to us again, once, two, three, many times.

In any event, it is certainly true that it has been a harder road since the takeover, than most anticipated. The militants world wide seem to be going to Iraq to take their shot at the Great Satan. With luck, maybe most of them will achieve their final exit there, rather than here.

[Alberta's Child]

It's hard to blame Bush for that episode on the aircraft carrier. He was basing his actions on what he was told by the civlian morons in the Pentagon who executed this war in the first place. You know -- the ones who said the U.S. would be welcomed "with open arms" in Iraq, and even speculated that the U.S. could win the war with anywhere from 0 (no joke) to 30,000 troops on the ground?