Mr. Bush had to sneak into Baghdad or more precisely, the “Green Zone”. Air Force One had to jink around in the sky for a roller-coaster landing. I guess Mr. Bush was worried that all the candy and flowers thrown by adoring mobs of Iraqis would hurt his plane. Will the Arab world see the meeting for what it is - an infidel overlord meeting his puppet?

Well, the good news is that Mr. Bush did not have to sneak back into Washington. Did any American ever have to sneak into Saigon?

2,500 Americans have now lost their lives in Mr. Bush’s “grotesque mistake”. It is time to change direction. The silver-tongued devil Karl Rove speaks from his safe air conditioned building in New Hampshire, his life not at risk, that we should stay the course. We stayed the course in Vietnam. What did we achieve?

Forget about Abu Gharib and innocent Iraqi women and children being killed. Don’t ever ask yourself about the morality of this war. Mr. Bush has done more to damage the reputation of America in six years than all previous Presidents in 200+ years combined.

Is the war in Iraq good for America?

Well, three years, 400 billion dollars and 2,500 Americans and counting.