I'm not researching now. I'm teasing bots on several different threads while waiting for the Mrs. to get home. We're taking our dog out for walkies tonight. I made the mistake of telling him, so I'll have to do it, no matter how late she shows up.
Great, then you DO have time to find the quote about W talking directly to God.
We've heard a lot of hot air and bravado from the keyboard blowhards. Dane, who wants to turn the Southwest over to the Zetas, went and called me Tokyo Rose for arguing that we are in a war of attrition with not just an Iraqi insurgency, but 10-25% of the Sunni Muslim world. A war that could last virtually forever given an inexhaustible recruiting base of jehadis. I pointed out these hard truths and the keyboard blowhards screamed "traitor" and "defeatist".
Apparently, Secretary Rumsfeld sees things a lot more soberly than the keyboard blowhards. He does not have the luxury of believing only what he wants to believe. The insurgency, he agrees, could go on for another decade at least (hardly death throes. Apparently General Abizaid gave him some hard home truths that are a lot stronger and more pessimistic than what he said to Congress.). And it can only be beaten in the end by Iraqis. We can't do that for them.
I suppose the keyboard blowhards are going to start calling Rumsfeld and Abizaid "traitor" and "defeatist".