Priorities

I couldn't possibly say it any better than Greg Djerejian, so I'll simply link to his post here. Read especially the first part about the press gaggle with Rumsfeld and Myers, along with Greg's comments about it.

This just floors me. Does it remind anyone else of invading Iraq ostensibly to disarm the country, then not securing the major weapons caches?

As Greg writes, "These guys should be going to bed every night with such figures firmly implanted in their head." That they have to "get back to us" several years into an occupation leads to a completely logical and appropriate question: Just what the hell is going on?

And here's a more depressing question: If thousands of our troops have been killed and permanently maimed in order to allow Iraqis time to train and ultimately defend themselves, but our most senior civilian and military leaders have to "get back to us" about how much progress has been made in that regard, what does that say about the importance of our troops' sacrifice to those leaders?

If you know someone who thinks there is even a remote chance we'll be withdrawing from Iraq in significant numbers during the next few years, tell them to contact me---I have a bridge over the Tigris to sell them.