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Ms. Saunders, I often read your columns, and I have to say I appreciate the independence of your points of view. But you do have a breathtaking ability to miss the obvious from time to time. You've done that here, and frankly this is one of the most self-rebutting columns I've ever seen you write. Why don't you just say it like this: "Oh joy! Obama is clearly wrong! We're seeing fewer people get killed or maimed every day, fewer lives dislocated, less and less fallout from all that American money being flushed down the toilet." Whoopee. Yes, the champ is not getting pounded as hard as before in the ring at the moment, but if you don't think he'd better get out of there before he winds up flat on his face, you ought to consider buying lottery tickets as a better way to bet your money. Has it ever occurred to you how much of the world is a shipwreck because of our distraction in Iraq? Or perhaps that a different president, like Obama, for example, might well have had the credibility and world support as one who had opposed the war rather than hawked it to negotiate a solution not available to that bunch of thugs squatting in the White House? You wouldn't expect someone who's been raped to look to the rapist for help, but that's kind of like what we're asking the world to do now when our president says, "Yeah, yeah, I lied, but we're stuck with the mess I created now you just have to trust me to clean it up. And look how good I'm doing. Fewer and fewer people are getting killed and dismembered every day.” It's a big mess, Ms. Saunders. Bush and Cheney will retire, do the lucrative lecture circuit, whine about how they would have been a raging success if only the wimps in the Democratic Party and the media it controls had given them proper support, and die with smiles on their faces. And we and our kids (you know, the families the Republicans are so hot to protect), not to mention the millions of Iraqis whose lives have been utterly dislocated, will still be cleaning up the mess long after those two war criminals fade away into their comfy oblivion. How willing would you be right now to bet every penny you have on Iraq being a better place ten years from now than it was before we trashed it? If you would, like I say, switch to lottery tickets for a better ROE. P.S. You should consider taking a little look into how the Iraq war relates to the problem we are seeing with oil right now. You might just find yourself a bingo. We have lost, you fool. Your president bet the farm and it's gone.