I was going to write about health care yesterday, but as I looked at the NRO homepage, RCP, et al., it seemed that every single person in the universe was writing on the subject for the fifty millionth time. So, I tore up my brilliant, insightful, informed, and entirely original column and wrote about Iraq instead. The opening:

“Victory has a hundred fathers,” John F. Kennedy said, “and defeat is an orphan.”
By that standard, George W. Bush has won the Iraq war.
Last month, Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed on CNN’s Larry King Live that the peaceful transition to democracy and the (partial) withdrawal of U.S. forces “could be one of the great achievements of this administration.”
Initially, I ignored Biden’s comment because, well, he’s Joe Biden. As critical as I may be of the Obama administration, holding it accountable for Biden’s mouth seems grotesquely unfair.