So, lemme get this straight.

Bush blames Kerry for "insulting" the troops by saying he said something he didn't say, that everybody knew he didn't say and didn't mean, and it just didn't matter.

GOP Majority Leader John Boehner blames the generals and it's no laughing matter, but his attempt to say the buck stops with the guys on the ground and not Rumsfeld, or Bush, isn't criticism of the military is truly a knee-slapper.

The Army Times blame Rumsfeld. evidently missing Boehner's memo and exposing itself as a tool of the Glorious Socialist Revolution For Make Benefit Of Liberal Mainstream Media.

Chalabi blames Wolfowitz, and the rest of the "Pentagon guys" for "chickening out" -- and if they'd listened to him the Iraqis wouldn't have any foreigners to blame.  No, really.

The neo-con chickenhawks spread blame all around, and if you only look at Vanity Fair when they've got a naked pregnant celebrity on the cover, Shakes has the money quotes.  I twist the words below ...

Meanwhile, Powerline blames the Iraqi people for loving their own freedom more than ours, I guess.

Digby blames Powerline, Limbaugh and Malkin for writing the incomprehensible drivel they spew when they should have known that Bush actually listens to them.

Andy Card blames the NYTimes for letting everyone know that Bush listens to the guys at Powerline and published how to make a nuke on the net -- in Arabic.

Speaking of Nutjobs, LGF also blames the NYTimes for being in cahoots with the International Atomic Energy Agency by hiding the facts that Saddam knew how to build the bomb  If only they could just release those documents to the rocket scientists running blogs instead of those security risks as Los Alamos.  What?  But there's got to be something there that proves that we weren't complete fools, right?  I mean, we didn't just teach Iran how to build a bomb, did we?  Scott blames the drugs.

Bob Ney and Mark Foley did the Mel Gibson cop-out, blaming the booze for the greed and the gay pederasy.  And speaking of the lubricated love ...

Pastor Haggerd really didn't blame anyone, but his defenders blamed his fat, lazy wife.

I blame Clinton for not having the balls to claim he didn't have sex with that man, and that he didn't inhale inject the meth.  What kind of balls does it take for a Presidential spiritual advisor, head of a 30 Freaking Million person Christianist organization to admit buying drugs from a guy he said he didn't know, er, um ... only got a massage from (if that's what he wants to call it...) and threw the stuff away only to call up and ask for more.  Now that's balls.

Move over Mean Jean.  There's another congressman who wants to take your place as the stupidest representative to ever insult a G.I.

Demotion to Minority Leader isn't enough for this embarrassment to all of Ohio, or even losing his leadership position to become a backbencher (which he rightly deserves).  He shouldn't ever get elected dog catcher again.

If this will be known as the year of the Democratic Tsunami.  2008 should be the Great GOP Purge if this guy remains the face of the Republican Party leadership.

If you don't study, work hard in school, get good grades, when you grow up to be president you're certain to disgrace your nation.

Hey, I get it.  It was a choice between traffic jams ... or securing the capital and finding our lost GI.   That used to be a no-brainer in the quaint old days of a more chivalrous era.

Like four years ago ... Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld 9/20/2002:

The Carpetbagger makes the point that, "Maliki doesn't have 'command' over U.S. troops, but our soldiers abandoned all the positions in eastern and central Baghdad they had set up just as soon Iraqis told them to."

This happens under the watch of a President who promised exactly the opposite.

Dishonorable?  Too mild a word if you ask me.  It's criminal, and Dem Vet shows us just where in the Code of Conduct we find the mandate that we do not leave soldiers behind, a Code that earned many a hero more than just a Button, but a premature trip to Arlington as well.  Heros who, unlike the cretins running the show, knew the meaning of the words, "Honor, Duty, Code"

And now you know why they want to make Kerry a campaign issue, because the truth of the war is something they cannot handle.

Yes, this election is indeed about Iraq, and now it's not just the lies that got us there or the incompetence that turned it into such chaos we can't get out, or the war crimes, or corruption -- but now it's the cowardice of the 1600 crew too.

Do you really need any more proof than this:  Bush wants Rumsfeld, Cheney for rest of term - USATODAY.com