So Much For Dubya's Strategic Vision

Lest anyone think we would have the audacity to discuss invading the enemy who is killing our troops in Iraq and developing nuclear weapons to wipe our cities from the map, and who just happens to be right next door to a big chunk of the U.S. Army and Air Force, Bush says think again:

President Bush believes he might have been misunderstood when he started speaking about the need to go after Iran for its involvement in aiding the insurgency in Iraq.

As he traveled to Illinois today to share good news on the economy, he said the subject has been overshadowed by the war in Iraq, and he clarified his stance on Iran, which he does not plan to invade.

"Nobody's talking about that," he told ABC News' Betsy Stark. "To say that defending ourselves in Iraq … has some greater goal is just simply not the case."

Yeah, sure would hate to think our boys were dying over there for anything but Iraqi democracy.

Shouldn't the one lesson we learn from the Vietnam War be that you have to take the war to the enemy, wherever they may be, if you are to win it?

Isn't this a Global War on Terror? Doesn't that rather presume that the number one sponsors of terrorism in the world would be a target?

If we invaded Iraq because of the threat of WMDs, which Iraq had never used against Americans, wouldn't the justification for invading Iran be even greater given that they are developing nuclear weapons and have in fact used WMD against Americans in Saudi Arabia, New York, and Lebanon?

Or was the notion of a Global War on Terror simply a fig leaf for taking Saddam out?

It is becoming nearly impossible to defend this administration's foreign policy.