[MRM]

It is possible to think the president has lied repeatedly and to believe that the war is both worthwhile and winable.

The entire problem with the war has been Bush's refusal to deal with the truth when the news was something he didn't like. As a result, the administration deals with bad news by denying it and trying to spin the facts to convince us that all is well when it isn't. Because the administration is so busy trying to convince us of things that are not true, we have been unable to make a frank appraisal of the situation and take the corrective action necessary. If it is not already too late, the refusal to make the necessary changes in strategy years ago has made the task infinitely more diffcult.

Compare the handling of the various Iraq scandals to the Walter Reed scandal. Once Bush came to grips with the fact that he couldn't deny that our soldiers were being treated badly, he fired the people responible and got people in place who could do the job.