When you've got a picture like this, who really needs a caption, right?

As I wrote in the Digest this morning, the clearest sense of how bleak a state we're in is the fact that all this report really does is state the obvious (the Iraq's a disaster and we can't stay there forever) in a quasi-public forum.

One other point we shouldn't go too long without restating. With his policy of no troop increases and no troop decreases, let's all understand that President Bush's real policy is stasis -- no 'winning' or 'losing' or escalating or withdrawing. It's about fighting any fight, carrying any burden to keep kicking this can down the alley until January 2009 so he can say the disaster he created is someone else's fault. That's not hyperbole or trash talk. That's really the policy.