Howard Fineman, a man who has been both Bush sycophant and abject apologist for the 1600 Crew since 1999 (or before) finally wrote something the other day that strikes me as true, not to mention a great observation:

"President George W. Bush's Iraq policy is now in the political equivalent of receivership -- a bankrupt project that is about to be placed in the hands of the worldly-wise pragmatists who surrounded the president's own father. Think of them as receivers in bankruptcy, looking for ways to salvage America's military and moral assets after a post-September 11 adventure that voters (and most of the rest of the world) concluded was a waste of blood and treasure. . . .