We Broke It, You Fix It

That seems to sum up Mr. Bush's new Iraqi plan, which would hand Iraq basically over to the UN - which didn't want us to charge into Iraq to start with. Gee, most of us, if we charge forward on a ruinous path, would be stuck with the results of the damage we wrought. Not Mr. Bush.

Oh sure, we'll continue troop forces there and the violence certainly won't end on June 30th. Halliburton, WorldCom, and others will continue to wildly profit from the efforts there and big chunks of those profits will be funneled back to Mr. Bush's re-election campaign.

Remember, too, that Mr. Bush's new idea includes not handing over Iraqi finances to Iraq but to John Negroponte, a man some of us would not allow to manage an ant farm.