Invitation to Denial

In the debate, Bush repeatedly asked, "I don't see how you can lead this country to succeed in Iraq if you say wrong war, wrong time, wrong place. What message does that send our troops?"

That really is something a soldier would not want to hear. But, what if it's true?

Isn't Bush asking us to join him in his state of denial? A state where this was a war of necessity? Where Saddam was in league with Bin Laden? Where we really did find the WMD? Where things in Iraq are going swell?

In the real world, things aren't going so swell in Iraq, and the the Iraq war is a diversion from the war on terror. We need a president who knows that and says it, even if it's hard to hear, because it is true.