The Story So Far

In his column in the Washington Post, Colbert I. King gives a succinct and chilling summary of our Iraq war, ending with this:

Afterward, Bush should close the doors, repair to a quiet place, and read from beginning to end Delaware Sen. Joe Biden’s speech Thursday before the Center for Strategic and International Studies, “Getting It Right in Iraq.”

Biden said: “Let me leave you with one thought. I come from Delaware. I have been to Dover many times. The men and women there who receive our soldiers and their families on that last long journey home know what this is about. When those planes fly over Delaware and land in the middle of the night, we are reminded that this is not about politics, about whether we believe with every fiber of our being that we are fundamentally right or that someone else is dangerously wrong. This is not about assigning blame or about partisanship. This is about that last journey home to Dover Air Base. It’s about those brave Americans who are doing everything in their power to get it right. We owe them no less than to get it right ourselves.”

The president should start handing out walking papers.

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