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John Soltz has a great post up today about the war in Iraq.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-soltz/why-the-administration-wo_b_93843.html

What does it mean if violence goes down in Iraq?

“Success of the surge,” says the administration.

What does it mean, then, if the violence goes up in Iraq?

“Success of the surge,” they say.

What? How can you manage to say that? Well, that’s what the Pentagon did yesterday, claiming that the exploding violence in Iraq is a sign of progress.

For years, we’ve been asking “What is success” in Iraq? How do we know we’re making progress? And, for years, we’ve gotten nothing but a vague answer from the administration, with no hard metrics.

Now, admittedly, for years I assumed it was because the administration and its proponents simply had no answer - that they couldn’t figure out what the end-state was.

Now, today, it’s become painfully clear: It’s not that the administration CAN’T define success, it’s that they WON’T.

If you want to get a better sense of where Iraq is today
Read this report “2008 STATE OF THE WARS, MILITARY, AND VETERANS".

http://www.votevets.org/pages/?id=0004

Oh and George Bush isn’t the decider anymore, he is the DENIER…..
Denying reality because he can’t deal with it.

The next President is going to have to deal with it instead.

Which means we had all better work really hard so John 100 years McCain
doesn’t get the job.

Because McCain also has no frigging clue on how to end this war,
and bring the troops home.