Out of My Mind

From the War Room:

The Bush administration has long insisted that news stories about violence in Iraq obscure the progress that is being made on the political front.

Perhaps it's time to put that story to rest.

In an extraordinarily gloomy report from Baghdad, Reuters correspondent Mariam Karouny says that Iraqi leaders have "all but given up on holding the country together." Among the ideas now on the table: Divide Baghdad into two zones, one for Shiites and one for Sunnis, in the hopes of stopping the bloodshed between the two.

The harsh words from one unnamed government official: "Iraq as a political project is finished."

This is good; I never knew Our Leaders ever saw Iraq as a "political project." Well, I mean other than a political issue for domestic use in rallying their supporters (as opposed to a political project in Iraq).

And our leaders are fully aware of what's going down in Iraq because they have improved the intel after the intel debacle that resulted in the present debacle.

Not.

And the WaPo shows it support for our leaders by bringing us the good news from Iraq:

Thursday was one of the quietest days in one of the year's bloodiest weeks, with no single reported attack in Iraq claiming more than 13 lives.

Then from the War Room again:

Top headline at the Washington Post’s Web site: "Bush Sees Mideast Strife as a Step Toward Peace."

I report. You decide. Fair and balanced.