IT WON'T MATTER
As the new troops rotate into Iraq, the Iraq Survey Group is leaving. This is a tacit admission that no WMD will be found, not matter what spin gets put on it. The ISG had already been scaled back from 1,500 to 400 troops. But not to worry, Bush fans - W. won't be held accountable for this at the polls. Just as the public gave Bill Clinton a pass on the whole Monica mess (including lying to investigators), the average voter does not care about the intel abuses by Bush and his neo-con bosses. They are likely to be pacified by the talk of how terrible Saddam was to his people, although the war was not justified on that basis. (If it had been, we would be planning regime-toppling exploits in Iran, N. Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and almost every nation in Africa.) The voters in the U.S. are increasingly docile creatures and accountability for national leaders is more and more a theory. Good hair, a nice smile and folksy ways are more influential in getting votes, whether you are Clinton or W. Take note, Howard Dean.