why this administration will never be able to get out of war

from today's papers:

The NYT and LAT front, and the Post stuffs, the latest from Iraq, where the U.N. announced about 100 civilians were killed per day last month, a much higher rate than earlier in the year. The U.N. got the numbers for the Iraqi health ministry and Baghdad's morgue. Nearly 60 people died yesterday when a suicide bomber hit day laborers in Kufa, a Shiite holy city. The bomb exploded across the street from cleric Moqtada Sadr's main mosque.

The LAT's conclusion: "IN IRAQ, CIVIL WAR ALL BUT DECLARED."

Or as visiting Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman told the NYT while hanging in the Green Zone, "The situation seems far more stable than when I was here two or three years ago. The security seems better, people are more relaxed."