nyt on iraq: we're on our way out, or should be

This short Frank Rich article from the New York Times captures the current situation pretty well: the world now knows that the Iraq war was started on false pretenses for political motives; the US public's approval of the president's handling of Iraq is at a record low, as is his overall approval rating; the right is crumbling; there is now way to win this "war".

"What lies ahead now in Iraq instead is not victory, which Mr. Bush has never clearly defined anyway, but an exit (or triage) strategy that may echo Johnson's March 1968 plan for retreat from Vietnam. [...]

Now comes the hard task of identifying the leaders who can pick up the pieces of the fiasco that has made us more vulnerable, not less, to the terrorists who struck us four years ago next month."

Read the full article: Someone Tell the President the War Is Over.