Will They Be Called "Kidney-Pie-Eating Surrender Monkeys"?

Looks like the Brits are leaving the coalition of the willing in a slow-bleed of troops. Then, the Danes (Danes?).

My favorite line: Johndroe said that "President Bush sees this as a sign of success and what is possible for us once we help the Iraqis deal with the sectarian violence in Baghdad ... It's the model we want to emulate, to turn over more responsibilities to Iraqis and bring our troops home." Except we're bring our troops home in reverse.

But . . . if the Brits have done such a bang-up job in Shiite-dominated Basra, why can't they redeploy to Baghdad to assist their American allies? Is it because we don't need more troops in Baghdad? No, we know that's not it. Is it that the "special relationship" is no longer that "special"?

Could it be because the Great Ideological Struggle of our Time (GIST), in which the Iraqi clusterfuck is the central clusterfuck, is nearing its end . . . and we won? That the dreaded Caliphate of Hate of the Entire World (CHEW) is no longer a possibility? I mean, to hear Blair talk about the clusterfuck . . . pulling out doesn't seem like a responsible thing to do. It sounds like what GOP flacks might call "cut and run." We can't cut and run from the War Against the Deathmasters (WAD).

Not "cut and run." Bush says "a sign of success" (SOS).

SOS indeed. Even if we've blown the WAD, and we're not yet getting the GIST, the spin war is still raging. CHEW on that.