Oh here’s some big news: Barack Obama has officially declared defeat in Iraq! War is over and our troops are headed home in shame! Stay with us as our president explains how he is going to pull soldiers out of the Middle East, a little bit at a time, until at some point in the future we have mere tens of thousands of troops overseas instead of hundreds of thousands. MORE »

No timetables for leaving Iraq, declares our George W. Bush! The terrorists would dine out on a timetable! This is why we do not have a timetable for leaving Iraq, even though the Iraqi government wants one (although they have elections too and may be PANDERING to bums who will be killed upon withdrawal[!]). Today, however, “The United States and Iraq have agreed to set a ‘general time horizon’ for the ‘further reduction of U.S. combat forces in Iraq.’” Ooh, this is the ticket. It’s sort of like saying “nothing will change at all, and this crap should temporarily appease both of our stupid constituencies,” but with a different set and sequence of words. [NYT]

House Democrats, in their continuing effort to make it seem like they vaguely intend to one day make motions toward thinking about using their Constitutionally-granted power to end the war they all campaigned against in 2006, voted “to give the Bush administration two months to present to Congress its planning for the withdrawal of combat forces in Iraq.” But unlike all the other withdrawal votes that no one could get passed even though 500% of the country now thinks the war was a terrible mistake, this one was vague and non-committal enough to get House Republicans to sign on! MORE »