Required Reading

Got the link from Instapundit. Here's the lede:

As hard as it is to think of Ted Kennedy as a political visionary, his April 2004 statement that "Iraq is George Bush's Vietnam," was way before its time. In the last presidential election year Kennedy started down a path that would have been political suicide for Kerry. But Kerry's approach -- feigning support for real action against terrorism -- lost. The Dems will not make the same mistake in 2008. The architects of our defeat in Vietnam have dusted off their old plans and are adopting them to Iraq. They are working hard to make Kennedy's statement come true.

That's just the opening. What follows is a cautionary tale about our collective will to win in Iraq. Things aren't looking good for the "good guys" these days. I hope it changes.

But wait! There's more! One could, and should, add NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN (in addition to the Op-Ed columnists of the NYT) to the unrelenting drum-beat of "Bush Lied!" and so on, ad nauseam. Makes me flipping sick at heart.