Think, dammit.

President Bush made two stunning admissions yesterday in a half-hour interview with the New York Times. First, he hung the Swift Boat Veterans for "Truth" out to dry, saying that he does not believe John Kerry lied about his war record. Eat that, SBV"T"ers. (He goes on to castigate all 527 groups in general, still refusing to condemn the attack ads.)

He also, incredibly, admitted for the first time that he had made a "miscalculation" about what postwar Iraq would turn out to be, winning him the prestigious "No Shit, Sherlock" award. However, the honeymoon of truth and clarity was, of course, over all too soon. Check out this all-too-familiar Bush logic, according to the article:

"Bush insisted that the 17-month-long insurgency that has upended the administration's plans for the country was the unintended by-product of a 'swift victory' against Saddam Hussein's military, which fled and then disappeared into the cities, enabling them to mount a rebellion against the American forces far faster than Mr. Bush and his aides had anticipated."

In other words, the reason we haven't won yet is because we've already won.


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