Daily Kos: No Way Forward in Iraq

by Pericles

Wed Jan 10, 2007 at 09:15:55 PM PST

The most important thing about President Bush's speech was that it had to be given at all. Nearly four years after the invasion, we still haven't secured the capital. Worse, we had Baghdad more-or-less secure in 2003-2004, and we lost it. You can't look at a basic fact like that and still believe that we're winning the war.

The pundits want to focus on the word mistake, which Bush used for maybe the first time ever. But here's the context:

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

In other words, he's responsible the same way that the president of McDonalds is responsible when your fries are cold. Big deal. I continue to hope that someday, maybe when he's 90, Bush really grasps the fact that his bad judgment got good people killed. I don't expect it, but I hope.