Three Years Ago...

Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby boasted of "Heady days for those of us in the war party".
Yesterday's column tempered as it is by a thousand bloody ambushes, does naught but screech "traitor and sellout" at congressional democrats who arethemselves bound and determined to wrap up our misadventure in Iraq with dignity intact.
Jeff is of course, a hopeless debate opponent as he either wants to set impossible terms or he indulges pre-discussion name calling of a low and odious order. In both cases a rational exchange of view is nicely ruled out.
Let Humble Elias be blunt:
Harry Reid didn't lose this war.
The liberal bloggers didn't lose this war.
The New York Times didn't lose this war.
Teddy Kennedy didn't lose this war.
Until fairly recently, they have all been bystanders in the great war to liberate Iraq.
No George Bush lost this war.
Bad faith on his part started the war, it was prosecuted by giddy amateurs and the peace handed over to a bunch of interns from the Cato Institute.
Honestly what the hell did anyone really expect given the record of this vile rabble of hacks?
Bush lost this war, period end of story.
I see no reason to pretty this up, Bush wanted this war, he got this war and then he lost this war...now he wants to blame his own bungling on his liberal opponents here at home.
Shameless cowardice if you asked me.
LBJ was man enough to admit when he was licked and make appropriate policy changes vis a vis Viet Nam. Bush however is a craven specimen kept aloft by gaseous lackeys like Jeff Jacoby.
If it wasn't costing us all blood and treasure I'd laugh.