Reply #19: Have to agree. He's got the smarts to halfway defend the position, [View All]

[saltpoint]

but it isn't washing at my house.

But I stop to consider how he sounds defending a disastrous policy and how Rumsfeld and Rice sound, and I remember Hitchens' range.

And no matter what, at this point I believe Bush has completely lost Iraq, the country, the issue, the momentum, the public relations distortions -- all of it. He's toast.