The Gist

"Kicking Ass"

Here we go. George W. Bush is now saying "we're kicking ass" in Iraq. It's bad enough that this kind of rhetoric only emboldens anger against the U.S. and that, in a civil war, it's unclear which side's ass we're claiming to kick. Worse yet is how this administration has, over the past few weeks, moved back into a "we're winning" fantasy, and the media is enabling the whole thing.