You can't spin a dead body

That's the crux of the problem George Bush and Dick Cheney are having with Iraq. (It's also the reason Katrina had the impact it did in terms of exposing Bush as incompetent.)

They can lie to the American people about domestic spying. They can lie about the economy. They can make up all sorts of bull about Bush's Supreme Court nominees being mainstream, about how Bush really hasn't polluted the air we breathe and the water we drink. How he hasn't weakened America at home and abroad. But even with Bush lying about all of that, it takes time to prove, and that's what Bush is counting on. The nation won't know for years the damage that the Republican's incompetence has caused (just think about global warming - Bush ignores it and lies about it, the Republicans in Congress help him blow it off, and it's your grandchildren who will be paying the price, long after Bush is out of office).

But when it comes to Iraq, Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and their Republican supporters running the Congress can talk all they want about how great things are going on the ground, but there's nothing they can do to stop the growing number of dead bodies - ours and theirs - from proving otherwise.

You just can't spin a corpse.