…was snatched by Obama from Bush’s victory.

I can’t imagine how bad the morale must be for those who fought to take back Anbar from Al Qaeda.

[Update a while later, from Long Beach]

The ugly choices of Ramadi:

If Ramadi is not recaptured, Sunni Iraq will have slipped to ISIS, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men may never be able to put Iraq back together again. On the other hand, if the U.S. backs the militias’ advance, it may well be party to ethnic bloodshed that will put the killings after the fall of Tikrit to pale. Thus, even if the militas do retake Ramadi the methods they employ could so deeply antagonize the non-ISIS-supporting elements of the Sunni population as to have the same result: no more Iraq.

While publicly the Administration and the Pentagon have started to sound a bit like Baghdad Bob, Administration officials have anonymously begun voicing their unease with the situation, in one instance describing Ramadi as a “powder keg” noting that there is a potential for things to go “very, very badly.”

This is what happens when you put a “community organizer” in charge of…well…anything.

I’m going to stock up on the popcorn if Sid “Vicious” Blumenthal is going to testify before Trey Gowdy.

[Update a few minutes later]

Rick Wilson explains the Clinton rules to the media:

Jesus, media. If you want to be humiliated and demeaned by a 70 year old harridan, go to a professional.

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