Billmon: The Devil's Flypaper

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne points to this nauseating -- but highly revealing -- comment from one of the White House pod people:

Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," Fran Townsend, the president's homeland security adviser, said that the war in Iraq attracts terrorists "where we have a fighting military and a coalition that can take them on and not have the sort of civilian casualties that you saw in London." (emphasis added)

This has to set some kind of new low for war hawks peddling their flypaper drivel. What exactly does Ms. Townsend think has been happening to Iraqi civilians over the past two years? Next time she's in Baghdad, she may want to drop by a mortuary. They could clue her in.