Today's editorial in the New York Times does something Bush and Cheney don't and won't do. They tell the truth about Iraq -- and the Times seriously challenges the credibility of the White House:
There is no plan for Iraq, only speeches. And there is no sense of reality coming from the White House either:
Iraq had nothing to do with the war on terror until the Bush administration decided to invade it. The president now admits that Saddam Hussein was not responsible for 9/11 (although he claimed last night that the invasion was necessary because Iraq posed a risk). But he has failed to offer the country a new, realistic reason for being there.
Its hard to figure out how to build consensus when the men in charge embrace a series of myths. Vice President Dick Cheney suggested last weekend that the White House is even more delusional than Mr. Bushs rhetoric suggests. The vice president volunteered to NBCs Tim Russert that not only was the Iraq invasion the right thing to do, if we had it to do over again, wed do exactly the same thing.Bush's White House can't make a plan for Iraq, they're too obsessed with the next election in the U.S.
