Also Hugged by John McCain

I could write many things about what is happening in Iraq. From the picturesque burning oil pipelines, to the tainted drinking water. From the State Sponsored Rape Rooms to the Foreign State Contracted Rape Rooms.

I could spend some time on how we are essentially allowing Iran's actual Iraq Allies (SCIRI) crush a nationalist movement with nominal Iranian support (Sadr) in the ultimate power play while some spokes-flack straight from the White House claims the latter is the one getting weapons from Iran. Of course, this statement is made while flowers & sweets rain down on the Green Zone -- in the form of mortars.

I could talk about how with a few days left in March the plateau of death in Iraq has spiked upward substantially for the second straight month as we head back to the baddest ol' days of early 2007.

I could write about how the fatuous, but dangerous, Fred Kagan has once again been demonstrated to be the biggest tool in BushCo's copious "Hardward Store of Wankery" by Glenn Greenwald.

But instead I will limit myself to this brief section from today's Washington Post (front page even, can you believe it?):

As President Bush told an Ohio audience that Iraq was returning to "normalcy," administration officials in Washington held meetings to assess what appeared to be a rapidly deteriorating security situation in many parts of the country.

If you are going to go completely delusional, what is more appropriate than to do so while quoting a late, great, Republican failure in his home state?

It's Teapot Dumb.

(pic from Neal H.)