This is Matthew Holt again. I still owe you all history of why Clinton’s health reform went down, so Ezra let me stay as a guest poster. I hope he doesn’t mind me posting this but Bob Herbert’s column about the incompetence of Bushco in Iraq is beautiful, if tragic. And this line about Bush’s desire for the Iraqis to take over from our troops is the best description ever of the mentality of the clowns running this country.
“We’ve learned that Iraqis are courageous and that they need additional skills,” said Mr. Bush in his television address. “And that is why a major part of our mission is to train them so they can do the fighting, and then our troops can come home.”
Don’t hold your breath. This is another example of the administration’s inability to distinguish between a strategy and a wish.