Success has already been achieved

At the joint press conference with Tony Blair yesterday, and after the bleak assessment delivered in the ISG report that conditions in Iraq were “grave and deteriorating,” President Bush continued to espouse his bubble-icious beliefs, beliefs that are completely at odds with the real world.

You wanted frankness — I thought we would succeed quicker than we did.

Did? Is there something about Iraq that Bush has kept secret? Is there some flourishing democracy, some whole and civil society in Iraq that we have simply missed?