Don't blame the messenger

David Ignatius posts an irritating screedin the WaPo. It's not that his thinking is so far off. He's correct in that we can't just embrace the latest revelations from the leaked NIEs as proof that Bush is an incompetent wastrel that's been lying to us all along and leave it at that. We should and we must use this event to open a dialogue seeking a solution to this Godawful mess. But Ignatius' framing of the problem as "America's fuck-up" and "America's war" is bullshit.

This is not America's fault. This is Bush and his cabal of neocon's war and the mess we're in is unequivocally their fault and only their fault. If Ignatius wants to complain about solutions, then he should be asking the White House to offer some and not deriding the Democrats for failing to come with a rescue plan when they're not even allowed to have all the facts from our Leaker in Chief.