Profound

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, on the Iraqi government, earlier today:

"In some ways we probably all underestimated the depth of the mistrust and how difficult it would be for these guys to come together on legislation.”

Jesus, you think so? How many seconds did it take to reach that groundbreaking conclusion, Mr. Wizard? Of course, the Administration underestimated how hard this was going to be. Consistently getting it wrong is the only thing this crowd does right. The larger, unanswered question is what the fuck are you going to do to fix it?

(chirp, chirp…)

Yeah, that’s what I thought.