Things In Eye-rack Are Looking Securier all The Time

By now I expect the comments telling me we aren't going anywhere. We need the oil, the military bases, blah, blah, blah. Today the chimp's wife, er-uh lover, I mean girlfriend said among other things that we must stay in Eye-Rack until the nation is secure.

Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis., called administration foreign policy "misguided and self defeating."

Biden said the administration must "level with the American people" over an exit strategy and whether U.S. troop levels there are adequate.

"I would not presume to try to give the president military advice, but I do believe that he got good military advice and I do believe that the plan and the forces that we went in with were appropriate to the task," Rice said.

But she also acknowledged that "we did meet with some unforeseen circumstances."

Sen. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), a Nebraska Republican who has been skeptical of the administration's Iraq policies, pressed her further on an exit strategy.

Declining to offer a timetable, she told Hagel, "Our role is directly proportional to how capable the Iraqis are" in completing a security force.

"We have to help them get there," she said.

Let me go out on a limb here and translate what that means: we get through the elections, say there are now more than 100,000 Iraqis in security positions capable of doing the job, and begin the withdrawal. Note: moving those troops to battle ready positions for Eye-Ran still constitutes withdrawal. By my account anyway.