Mr. President, Wake Up

This quote from a senior intelligence official in the Bush administration caught my eye, while reading this article in the Washington Post: "The current situation, with regard to governance in Iraq, was probably irreversible in the short term, because of the world views of many of the [Iraqi] government leaders, which were shaped by a sectarian filter and a government that was organized for its ethnic and religious balance rather than competence or capacity."

Does this strike anyone as ironic, as it seems that our government is looking more and more like this assessment? Our leaders are following ideology rather than facts, blinded by their narrow world-view and utter belief that they are right, lacking balance and competence. Bush & Co. continue to ignore the assessments of the Iraq study group and any recommendations by those who oppose their pre-conceived notions, regardless of fact or truth. Our President's continued optimism is a joke and shows us either how blind or how deceptive he really is. He will be asking for us to "just give it more time" until he is out of office and someone else can handle the mess.