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Vice President Dick Cheney said the other day that Democrats are not competent to fight the war in Iraq--this coming from a guy who shot a bird and hit a lawyer.

— Jay Leno, via Past Peak. Not that Useless Dick is wrong. The war is so completely FUBAR that no Democrat or Republican, or even some hypothetical intelligent well-intentioned political party, could possible fight it. Even the best possile solution available now, cutting and running, is likely to suck in multiple ways. But it is the only one that offers at least a slight hope of not making things worse.