Putz blames Iraq fiasco on domestic politics and the impatience of the American people.

Nice try, but it's not gonna work.

TROUBLING THOUGHTS ON IRAQ, from Rick Moran. Sadly, I agree that our domestic political situation will make constructive action difficult. As I've said before, it was obvious in the 1990s that we had a dysfunctional political class, but it's become much more obvious in the current decade. (Via TMV). And yes, time's the enemy now. Pentagon planners talk about the "three year rule" for domestic support in a war, and it's been four -- five if you count Afghanistan.

Excuse me. It was not our "domestic political situation" that made, as Moran says, "mistake after mistake, blunder after blunder and brought us to where we are now." It was Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the GOP-controlled Congress that sat by and did nothing and let it happen.

And if you only read Putz's blog, you'd never know about all those mistakes and blunders because Putz tut-tutted them, ignored them, and worse -- called those who pointed them out defeatist traitors.

Now he wants to put the blame on some vague notion of a "dysfunctional political class"? Or that Americans don't have the stomach to complete the Great Mission?

What a dishonest, small man.