House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said twice Sunday that Iraq 'is a failure,' adding that President Bush’s troop surge has 'not produced the desired effect.' Shortly after Pelosi spoke on Sunday with Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Iraq, a suicide bomber killed more than 20 civilians at a checkpoint north of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported. (Politico, Monday)
Government mismanagement. Jeepers, who would have thought?
FEE Timely Classic
War by Frederic Bastiat