Colin Powell kept bringing that point up as the Pottery Barn Principle, but the neocons ignored him. What could a 4-star general know about war?

I would have thought that Vitter would have wanted to fade into the sunset, but Fundies are certain that they can do anything they want and be forgiven when they get caught.

I read GHWB’s take on why he didn’t go into Baghdad after Saddam, back in the mid 90’s. He pointed out that if we’d done that, we would have owned it and be stuck in the same quagmire that Britain had been stuck in during the 1920’s when they tried to own Iraq. Too bad Rummy, Cheney, and Sonny didn’t listen to Poppy. Hubris is believing history doesn’t apply to you. They had it in spades.

I’m surprised Diaper Dave even made it to the runoff. I guess there’s some people who would prefer him to be in the governor’s office rather than in the Senate, that’s all I can figure. That, and there’s a lot of perverts in Louisiana, which would not surprise me at all — scratch a religious right zealot, half the time you find a pervert trying to hide it.