Here's a sort of revealing exchange from earlier today between Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell and pro-surge Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Graham repeatedly tries to nudge McConnell into signing on to various GOP talking points about Iraq and the War on Terror. And McConnell keeps saying, well ... no, not really. But Graham keeps pushing and eventually McConnell gets the message and signs on to the catechism.

It's not hard to imagine a lot of behind-closed-doors exchanges along these lines ...

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And I thought we were withdrawing to Kurdistan, not Kuwait. Is that the new plan?