From the Obvious Understatement Department: The situation on the ground in Iraq isn't getting any better.

So what's the deal? Seems that there were foreign jihadis involved in the latest vehicle-based bombing (car or truck...vehicle works for me), in Baghdad. I guess that the "flys" are coming home to see what's up in scenic Iraq, and perhaps leave a little death and destruction behind. Meanwhile, the air conditioning works in Crawford, on Barbados and I'm pretty sure it's still on in Auntie Donny's office in the E-ring.

Reports available so far on the truck-bomb explosion at a building housing the United Nations offices in Baghdad on Tuesday indicate that it was probably the work of foreign jihadi elements, with some local complicity.
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The jihadi and other resistance elements have been saying that just as the jihad of the 1980s in Afghanistan brought about the collapse of one superpower (the Soviet Union), the present jihad in Iraq, which, according to them, is being waged in tandem with that in Afghanistan, will bring about the end of the other superpower (the United States). They claim to have already trapped the US troops in Iraq and do not want any other nation to come to the rescue of the Americans, as they want to bleed them to death.
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Lesson 11: Bush should make an indirect signal to the Iraqi people that he realizes that serious policy mistakes have been made and he is taking action to correct them. It is not necessary to make an open mea culpa in this regard.

The only flaw in his logic is that President Dry-Drunk never admits he is wrong...about anything. So getting the 1600 Crew to admit that there is a serious policy mistake, is to first get them to admit there is/was a policy and then say those magic words: We Wuz Wrong.

Not betting the ranch on that happening.