Bush fiddles while Iraq burns

George Bush is on prime time tonight trying to bolster his sagging support. Sure, it's easy to divert the American public's attention away from the quagmire in Iraq with the Social Security "crisis" and other programs-of-the-week. But the fact is that Iraq is a mess. Note to Dick Cheney: This car bomb yesterday in Kirkuk doesn't quite appear to be the work of insurgency in its "last throes."