Pontius Shrublate

Corruption...he's soaking in it

William Rivers Pitt reports on hand cleansing at the White House:

Last week, George W. Bush got up before a gaggle of reporters and washed his hands of the mess in Iraq. The question of how long an American presence will remain in that country "will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq," said Bush. To be fair, he isn't the only one. The entire administration appears to have become bored with the whole process.

Pitt suggests this boredom is due to Team Bush's "success" in trashing both Iraq and the United States: from such trashing fortunes are fleeced, and, as Wolcott noted last week, the gang of vicious little thugs occupying Washington DC with all the hallmarks of a classic conquest are interesting in little more than looting, rape, pillage...and hoarding what they've managed to steal.

Which means, in a sense, Mission Accomplished. They've got theirs--at our expense.

Meanwhile: here's your storm response update--another single paragraph. Lends a whole new meaning to the term "Passover."