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President Bush after his loudly trumpeted meeting with “Senior State Department Officials on Iraq”:

I’m looking forward to continuing my deliberations with the military. There’s no question we’ve got to make sure that the State Department and the Defense Department are — the efforts and their recommendations are closely coordinated so that when I do speak to the American people, they will know that I’ve listened to all aspects of government, and that the way forward is the way forward to achieve our objective: to succeed in Iraq. And success is a country that governs, defends itself, that is a free society, that serves as an ally in this war on terror.

If their efforts are closely coordinated, the American people will know I’ve listened to all aspects of government? (Did you even know our government had aspects?) If you have any idea what any of that paragraph means, you’re a better man than I, Gunga Din.

But I’m more troubled by that incomplete definition of success. Isn’t there something missing at the end? Namely that success is also one big bloody pipe dream?