I started to write a post about today's Iraq testimony and then I came across this paragraph from the famed blogger, Atrios…
This has been said a million times in a million different ways, but the whole point of this exercise is to ensure that Bush's war continues until it's time for him to cut brush permanently. The surge can't have worked because then it could start ending, and the surge can't be not working because then it would a tragic waste of lives and money, so the surge is working just a little bit…but might work a little bit more soon!
That's it, really. The folks arguing what we should do there — especially the ones who want us to stay — don't really care that much what happens to Iraq. Most of them wouldn't know a Sunni from a Shia. George W. Bush decided we should be in Iraq and no force on Earth can get him to admit that might have been a mistake. So it's all about keeping us there until someone else gets us out and Bush can say, "It would have worked but my successor chose to cut and run."