Snipped from Slate.com.

If you were evaluating a progress report in which 18 benchmarks were laid out and only 8 of those 18 had been met, would you consider the project a success or even “promising”? Uh, no. As a former corporate executive, I would seriously look at scrapping the project, especially since it has taken over four years to get to that point, and devise a new strategy. Any logical person would. But we are dealing with a Commander Guy who doesn’t deal in reality only ideology. And, his ideology has no room for logic. I came across an article that gives highlights of what some of those in the blogosphere are saying about the recent Iraq progress report. I believe it reflects how many of us feel. You may be surprised by what some of the bloggers are saying.

I remember as Bush stood on the flight deck in front of the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, saying that the rising democracy in the Middle East guarantees basic rights with historic changes that have taken place in Iraq sending a message across the region from Damascus to Tehran that “freedom is the future of every nation”. I would call this rantings of a vainglorious, delusional man who sets his ideology above common sense, logic and even the rule of law.

Then as the years have passed and things have progressively worsened in Iraq with darker and darker news of increasing sectarian violence and the strengthening of al Qaeda, he continues with his delusional strategy. Now we have a report that basically spells out the “progress” in Iraq and even with its dire and dismal results, he still wants more time. More time for what? Does he want more time for young American soldiers to die or more time to prove that he’s not wrong and that his legacy is assured? How much more time would you give Bush?

Here is a portion of what Bloggers on both sides of the debate are saying about the newly released results of Iraq progress.

Any positive developments listed in the report, didn’t stop liberal bloggers from continuing the cry for an immediate end to the war. Amanda at ThinkProgress responded to Bush’s complaint at today’s press conference that Americans are short-sighted: ” ‘War fatigue’ is not the problem in Iraq. On every metric, the administration’s efforts in Iraq are failing. … Americans don’t need psychological counseling; they need an end to the war.”

At the opposite end of the spectrum, the Directors at Red State issued a lengthy defense of the war, arguing that withdrawal is not an option: “The war in Iraq is vital to America’s national security and to the Global War on Terror. It is a fight which we are not currently losing on the ground, and which we will not lose if we commit to victory, rather than taking the path that appears easier, at least in the short term—abandoning yet another battlefield to the enemy.”

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