Sometimes I'm afraid…

Sometimes I'm afraid…

…that he's not just lying, but that he's sincerely delusional. David Stout reports in the New York Times...

On the eve of parliamentary elections in Iraq, President Bush today described the United States campaign there as a blend of idealism, pragmatism and flexibility that would lead to "total victory" over the forces of tyranny and terrorism.

I mean, there's a case to be made that whyever and however we may have gone to war, we're there and we're obligated to stay and try to make the best of it. It's a case that fails, I believe, when posed against those for any of several avenues to withdrawal, but it's an argument just the same.

To believe that some possible outcome exists, though, that will lead to "'total victory' over the forces of tyranny and terrorism" is, quite simply, madness.

He's just lying, right?

Please?