On Bush and the war in Iraq...

Karl Rove coaches Bush well, judging by the way Bush is now able to play with words, or at least understand the nuance of the words involved -- http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/20/bush.main/

As to the we're not winning, we're not losing statement, what the heck does it tell us anyways? That our commander-in-chief is telling us, we don't know what the heck is going on; and that he doesn't know/have the details, but go ask those in the Pentagon?!? It reminds me of Ken Lay of Enron, when he could shamelessly profess publicly that he didn't know (or didn't need to know) the details of operations since he 'entrusted' his people. Well, at least Ken Lay just squandered away billions of dollars. For Bush to have authorized a war he had no freaking idea in in the first place, he squandered away hundreds of billions, and thousands of lives (both Americans and Iraqis). The moral high ground of Americans, in the eyes of the world, is also squandered away, and could take years to rebuild. It's a shame in history. It's certainly a job well done.

Every time this subject is brought up, it makes my blood boil.