Hey, man, you don't talk to the Colonel. You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind.

While General Petraeus testifies today and the numbskulls that make up our media focus on what this means to the presidential candidates who raced to Washington for the event, I'd just like to once again publicly thank our democratic congressional leaders for throwing MoveOn under a bus (*) and defending the General's oh-so-delicate sense of honor.

I'm sure we'll all be so thankful the General wasn't tagged as the lying pol he is and can now stand once again before congress once again and tell us how swimmingly things are going in Iraq and why Iran must be blown to smithereens without a moment to lose without his integrity or, God forbid, his honesty coming into question. Great job on that guys. Real bang-up work there. Really.

(* Clinton - nay, Obama - not present.)

It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies.

This editorial from today's Oregonian isn't bad up until it gets to this point-

Then our senators and representatives can stop their partisan posturing and cheap political stunts -- like aiming to pass their fund-cutoff to the date of Bush's infamous declaration of the end of ground combat in Iraq. Then they can get down to the serious business of supporting the troops by seeing that they get medical care, counseling, employment and respect from the country they serve. The administration can more effectively help Iraq by sending diplomats, money, equipment, trainers and advisers.

Look, I know the model for modern journalism is to pretend every thing's equivalent in order to provide "balance" and convince the reporter they're objectively reporting facts but the bottom line is there's simply no way you could refer to the Senate's passing of the supplemental on the anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" moment as cheap. Especially when comparing it to that moment of high political theater itself.

Four years ago to the date the President declared the war won. Shouldn't we be bringing our troops home?