Welcome back, Tom

We're in trouble in Iraq is the message from Mr. Freedman, and I have to agree. The litany of mistakes he lists are not just stumbles, but clear choices our administration made, consistently favoring domestic politics over sound policy. It is a gigantic betrayal of honest politics, when many clear thinkers, and Democrats, like Freedman, set politics aside and tried to analyse the situation fairly.

Finally, though, the tone of this criticism is getting somewhere. We have to get beyond Bush the Speaking Idiot type criticism for anything to get better, before it keeps on getting worse.