Putz & Austin Bay on the Iraq Study Group.

You think after Bush fired Rumsfeld, Putz and his BFF Austin Bay would figure out that things aren't going as very well in Iraq.

Nope.

AUSTIN BAY ON THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP:

The Baker-Hamilton study group will not produce any new thinking. The U.S. military has analyzed and gamed every course of action, including cut and run. For that matter, it gamed “non-intervention” in Iraq as well. . . .

If we are lucky, the Baker-Hamilton magic show will drop a scarf over the top hat and with a the ”poof” of a New York Times headline produce a “unifying” policy of words that will let the Democrats join the war, despite the howls of their blogosphere nutsroots.

Then the military will continue to do what it’s been doing in Iraq and Afghanistan and the new Iraqi government will continue to learn by doing — and in the ordeal of war that will mean learn by bleeding, suffering, and sweating.

If we are lucky.

Uh, wow. These are not serious people. Putz and Bay are apparently the only two people on the planet who look at the spiraling chaos in Iraq and Afghanistan and think, "More of that, please."

Seriously, this is beyond delusional.

Baker, who called Iraq a "helluva mess", was not brought in by Bush to let Democrats or bloggers do anything. He was called upon to give Bush a political cover to change the policy. Radically. That Bush replaced Rumsfeld with Gates, who was also on the Study Group, is more evidence of this, as any mildly retarded child can see.

Does anyone besides Putz and Bay think the Iraq Study Group is going to conclude, "Stay the course"? Looking forward to blowing up that nonsense the day after the Group's report is made public.