Bush wants to pardon himself and everyone in his administration, retroactive to 11 September 2001. The sad truth is he'll probably be able to get congress to go along with it.

How soon can we leave the country? Maybe we should be looking for a farm elsewhere.

*Headdesk*

Early success is less opposition? Military planners are starting their surge in Baghdad neighborhoods least likely to offer significant resistance. Of course once these areas were exhausted, violence would increase. By that time, maybe, media interest in the surge will have waned leaving the impression that the surge was effective.

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