Iraq? Not My Deal.

Rudy Giuliani sounds as stupid as Democratic consultants on this one. Iraq didn't appear in his "Twelve Commitments," and he was asked why.

“What I was trying to do was to look at the things, as best as you can predict it now, that are going to be there a year and a half from now,” he said. “Iraq may get better; Iraq may get worse. We may be successful in Iraq; we may not be. I don’t know the answer to that. That’s in the hands of other people. But what we do know for sure is the terrorists are going to be at war with us a year, a year and a half from now.”

What a leader.

'Course, Giuliani doesn't want to talk about the war because it's unpopular. He wants life to perpetually be like it was on 9-12, when we were spittin' mad and afraid and wanted revenge. He just doesn't want to discuss the SPECIFIC revenge we took because of its tragic consequences.

The truth is that you can judge the war on the evidence right now, and if you did you would come to the conclusion that the escalation is a failure, that there's been no drop in violence whatsoever and no movement on political reconciliation, and that the whole exercise has been a giant game of Whack-a-Mole, where the insurgents simply move to where the troops aren't congregated and continue with impunity. We have to get completely out of the country because we're doing nothing by being there. It's shameful that the leading Republican Presidential candidate would rather put his head in the sand and try to forget about it.