What is really going on in Iraq?

[Don Corleone]

Give the man a prize! For bonus credit, what were the two other unpardonably stupid things we did at the beginning of the CPA?

Too many to name, but telling Iran "We don't talk to evil" while simultaneously leaving the Iranian (and Syrian) borders wide open certainly qualify as two unpardonably stupid things.

I know I'm getting more cynical by the day, but I'm starting to wonder if the administration actually tried to keep the insurgency going for a while, then found it was beyond their ability to control any longer....

Fortunately, we're creating a second surge in Afghanistan ...

I think it speaks volumes about my confidence in the administration's ability to prosecute the war that I was actually pounding on my desk and shouting at my monitor before I thought to check the source (i.e., the Onion).