Falling

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I'll let Frank Rich gives us the latest dose of bad news from Iraq, as he is sort of a Dr. Kevorkian on the sordid affair:

What anyone in Congress with half a brain knows is that the surge was sabotaged before it began. The latest National Intelligence Estimate said as much when it posited that “even if violence is diminished,” Iraq’s “absence of unifying leaders” makes political reconciliation doubtful. Not enough capable Iraqi troops are showing up and, as Gen. Peter Pace told the Senate last week, not enough armored vehicles are available to protect the new American deployments. The State Department can’t recruit enough civilian officials to manage the latest push to turn on Baghdad’s electricity and is engaged in its own sectarian hostilities with the Pentagon. Revealingly enough, the surge’s cheerleaders are already searching for post-Rumsfeld scapegoats. William Kristol attacked the new defense secretary, Robert Gates, for “letting the Joint Chiefs slow-walk the brigades in.”

Ah, Dubya, Dubya, your father gave you the keys to the country and you wrecked it, son. I know that it was supposed to be an easy ride after the balmy Clinton years and after the fall of the Soviet Union, when a stained dress was our biggest problem, but life fucks with us like that sometimes.

(Source: Frank Rich for The New York Times)

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