Shut Up

The Wiser Old men know when the merely "Wise Men" of Washington have fucking blown it:

Baker displayed little of the deference witnesses customarily show senators. At one point, he impatiently interrupted Lieberman's questioning about whether Iran would engage in talks. "We say it in the report, Senator -- it's in the report," he said, noting that the United States conferred with Tehran about events in Afghanistan.

Hamilton also told the senators that they are part of the problem. "I, frankly, am not that impressed with what the Congress has been able to do," said the 34-year House veteran. "I think the Congress has been extraordinarily timid in its exercise of its constitutional responsibilities on the question of warmaking and conducting war."

The bottom line in the ISG is that Bush and his enablers (see Lieberman, Joe & McCain, John) have managed to lose this war that should never have been started. We are now merely trying to pick the least worse loss. What has to be and should be considered is the loss of American soldiers (and Iraqi civilians) simply because we are postponing or making worse the disaster that is our own doing.