Well, first the LA Times, then Harry Reid, now it sounds like even the Pentagon is ready to acknowledge it's a civil war. Even Bush is going to curtail his vacation this year. I wonder if he'll still go down in history as the president that took the most vacation time.

It may seem crazy to harp on this point, but I feel as though we need to make them admit to the truth before we get anywhere. The entire time Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush have been looking at Iraq through rose-colored glasses. It seems like a major victory just to get them to see what they've done, or what the real situation is. With 50-100 people being killed a day it's just incomprehensible that they're unwilling to acknowledge the problem they face, and instead just dig deeper into the lie that things are getting better or will magically fix themselves on their own.