Reasons for Leaving--and Reasons Why We Never Should've Been There to Begin

This article from the Atlantic describes the first point, and this Huffington Post entry from Larry Beinhart explains the second.

Hat tips to The Washington Note and A Tiny Revolution for the links.

Oh--and isn't this just so Shrub-like?

Yesterday, 10 Marines were killed in Fallujah by a roadside bomb. President Bush knew about it before he made remarks at 10:45AM in the Rose Garden...He didn’t want to take the focus off today’s message, the “good news” about the economy.