Bush remains confusing. He speaks saying the enemy is losing on the battlefield, so is now trying to fight us through our media with terrible pictures and stories. (What? Blame the media?) He's said the "enemy" wants to take over Iraq. Well, who is the enemy? The Shiites, Sunnis, Saddamists, and a few Alqida are fighting each other. Alqida wasn't there until he invaded. Iraqis are killing Iraqis. That's a definition of a Civil war?
He said last Dec.: -"no time table," yet now he says leave by the end of the year. He seems to have said, what Murtha said last Dec. He also said we have to finish what "we started." What? In the past he said we "didn't" start it, but rather Saddam did as Saddam had a choice and brought the war to us.
He said we have to stay the course for victory, so those already killed will not have died in vain. Does that mean when we leave by the end of the year, they will have died in vain? Or that we have to stay to save face, for those who already died?
We broke it so own it, as Powell predicted: but we can't seem to fix it. Even the British are leaving, as did other coalition partners. This should remind us all of the nursery rhyme: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, ...had a great fall; all the king's horses and and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.