Unless you come up with some Bush’s-Brain-planned-it theory, isn’t that videotape just deeply depressing and demoralizing? And to know that political games are the cause of it.

I don’t blame Democrats solely for this — that a Republican administration never adequately sold this war from the beginning is part of the problem — why so many Americans don’t get it and Democrats are able to be weak on the war and be taken seriously. But it’s a depressing state of affairs I pray we’re not violently shaken from.