Yesterday, President of the United States George W. Bush “diverted” a flight to Australia to a desert base in Anbar Province, Iraq (Sure he did.). Anbar Province is now being effectively run not by US occupation forces, but by the armed Iraqi nationalist forces that fought the US to a standstill there… with the cooperation of the same US forces. This is being spun as a successful “counter-insurgency” campaign.

Many who opposed the war in Iraq, and the many more who just disliked the Bush adminstration, certainly had different expectations of what forms the end of that war might take. And this is certainly the beginning of some kind of end. That is not a call to complacency. Fight against this war like lives depend on it. They still do. I just feel compelled to counter-spin it.