One of the excuses I heard the Dems use last week to justify caving in to the preznit's demands for funding to continue the Great Iraq Debacle was that they were somehow sending the preznit a message that this was the beginning of the end of the occupation. Dubya has responded like a boxer throwing a cheap shot after the bell.

WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush would like to see a lengthy U.S. troop presence in Iraq like the one in South Korea to provide stability but not in a frontline combat role, the White House said on Wednesday.

The United States has had thousands of U.S. troops in South Korea to guard against a North Korean invasion for 50 years.

Pow! When are these sniveling Democrats going to get tired of getting their asses handed to them like that? It's pitiful.

Now the preznit has decidered that 50 years and counting of border guard duty pretending it is vitally important to maintain a tiny democratic pimple on the ass of Asia looks like a good example to follow. Within days the right-wing noise machine will have made it common knowledge that it has obviously been our plan all along to become a long-term benevolent protector keeping the communist terrorist hordes at bay. See, we'll have to stay for the Iraqis own good. They just can't get their security situation resolved on their own. It's a shame, but it's really their own fault.

Of course it's all bullshit designed to let dubya kick the whole situation down the road a little farther. And by the time events on the ground show the world that holding off an external, non-agressive enemy is really nothing like battling an internal enemy that's constantly blowing shit up, the C-plus Augustus will have moved on to the next Big Idea, leaving the Dems still jawboning in his wake. Like I said, pitiful.