You're gonna start now?

From AP via Josh Marshall:

U.S. Said to Develop Strategy for Iraq

It's been rumored for some time, but now we can confirm we're gonna develop one.

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has developed a formal written strategy for Iraq that envisions using a mix of diplomacy and military force to try to wrest control of dozens of key cities from insurgents before planned January elections, a senior administration official said Friday. [my emphasis]

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Shouldn't you have written something down in . . . say . . . Fall of 2002? This should read,' we're actually gonna do what everyone else in the world wanted us to do from the beginning, but we're too arrogant to care, and now we got to win reelection, so we can do what we want all over again'.

Fucking rat bastids.