Well, the preznit says Rumsfeld gets to keep his job forever. Nothing's going to change in Iraq, except that it will get worse. Bush has reaffirmed the Bush doctrine, which is that leaving is losing, and asserts that we have to stay there to babysit Dick Cheney's oil.
The Iraq war will continue to dominate our politics, and will once again be the issue in both the presidential primary and the presidential election. In the Democratic primary the battle will be between those who think getting in was a bad idea and getting out is a good idea and The Much More Sensible people who think getting in was a sorta-not-so-good-idea and that getting out is something we should really keep talking about in a Very Sensible Fashion but not, you know, doing it. We know which side Fred Hiatt and Mark Halperin will be on.
Yes, it's depressing.
