It's the media's fault, in case you hadn't heard.

They'll still be saying this 30 years from now.

A COMPARISON OF U.S. DEATHS in Vietnam and Iraq.

A graph of unfavorable news reports, however, would show much greater parity.

It wasn't George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or the GOP rubberstamp Congress that lost the war. It was the media.

UPDATE

Via Atrios, Yglesias reminds us that the right has another scapegoat ready to go.