The administration's war efforts in Iraq have had no more fervent supporter than Christopher "Kit" Bond, the senior senator from the great state of Missouri and the vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He's one of the many pols who've been out there for years now, telling us how great it's going over there and how we only have to "stay the course" and continue to do exactly as George W. Bush directs.
So it was a little disconcerting to see him say the following in this letter to The New York Times…
While I agree that we had the wrong plan for three years, we now have the right one, and the right man to lead it.
We had the wrong plan for three years? Three years!!?? How is that possible? I mean, all that time, Kit Bond was telling us we had the right plan and he was impugning the courage, intelligence and/or patriotism of anyone who dared suggest otherwise. And now…here he is, telling us it was the wrong plan. Oh, well. At least, he still has utter confidence in the men who picked all those people who plotted out the wrong plan for us. I wonder how the families of all the soldiers who got killed in the last three years carrying out the wrong plan feel about this.