An excellent article by Peter W. Galbraith. In essence, a summary of Galbraith's new book (which I need to read).

Quoted: While the Bush administration professes a commitment to Iraq’s unity, it has no intention of undertaking the major effort required to put the country together again.

Oww. The most damning indictment of Bush I have ever heard.

As America remains mired, both physically and mentally, in Iraq, the rest of the world marches on.

Quoted: As President Bush toured Asia, he spoke publicly of a free trade zone in the Pacific and focused private meetings on disarming North Korea.

Snip snip.

Quoted: The weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney's residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the "cakewalk" Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting President Bush...

Ha ha ha. Score!

Quoted: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stepped down Wednesday, one day after congressional elections in which opposition to the war in Iraq contributed to heavy Republican Party losses.

Ouch.

Excerpts from of "State of Denial", by Bob Woodward

Quoted: After President Bush won reelection in 2004, White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. got out an 8 1/2 -by-11 spiral notebook, half an inch thick, with a blue cover. He called it his "hit-by-the-bus" book -- handy in case someone in the administration suddenly had to be replaced. He......

Knock 'em down and drag 'em out.

Quoted: A new book by Bob Woodward, the Washington Post reporter and author, describes a White House riven by dysfunction and division over the war.