"There's no success like failure..."

I was watching BBC World News on my local PBS station last night and they did a story about Gordon Brown visiting Basra province in Iraq and telling his troops that the UK will be turning over control of Basra to the Iraqi's in a couple of weeks. Sprinkled through out the story were the words "failure" and "denial of failure."

If I heard correctly, some people, most likely thugs from the Bush junta, were calling Brown and the British turn over of Basra to the Iraqi's a failure.

Twweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!!!

Holy crap, what was that?

It was me!

And just who are you?

I'm Officer Timmy the Justice Tooth and I'm here to set the record straight on this "failure in Basra" nonsense.

Go right ahead dude.

Thanks, I will. The whole point of invading Iraq, if you believe what the Idiot in Chief said, was to topple Saddam and bring democracy to the region. They've had several elections and they have a government with a prime minister and Saddam and his cabal of cronies are gone. So what's the point of staying? Won't the Iraqi's have to take care of their own country sooner or later? Sure they will. So if you swallow what Bush and Blair pushed down your throats, then things in Basra been a smashing success! Those Brits did such a bang up job that the area is now safe (or maybe just war weary and tired as hell of being occupied by a foreign power) enough to turn over to the Iraqi's.

Gee Officer, I'd have to agree with you. Maybe we should let the Brits have control of Baghdad and the rest of the country so they can work their magic there as well.

Don't be silly Dr. Monkey, Halliburton, Blackwater USA, and KBR haven't made enough money yet so we can't let the Brits have the rest of Iraq. Why just think what would happen if we did, they'd probably go and allow Iraqi's themselves to rebuild their country and they might let them decide what to do with their oil revenues instead of allowing American oil companies to plunder their profits.

And Bush would like like an even bigger idiot than he did before...

Ummm, sorry Monkey, but that's not possible after the news about the NIE.