One of the most overlooked quotes of the week is possibly the most important in this phase of the war in Iraq. George Bush, the self-imagined warrior president, admitted defeat on the Charlie Rose show.
President Bush explained why in a television interview on Tuesday. "If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings, we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory," he told TV interviewer Charlie Rose.
That's kind of like saying Napolean never lost if you don't count Waterloo. The fact is, by any objective metric, we have lost. Harry Reid knows it and so do the American people. Now someone has to convince Bush that he is no longer a kid and you can't make up the rules as he goes along.