We'll have more shortly on the president's speech today. At the moment though I'm listening to the president comparing his war to the Korean War.

Really, the president flatters himself. As he has so many times.

This is little different from those claims back in 2003 and 2004 that post-war Germany was rife with 'insurgents' fighting against US occupation troops.

We can debate the ways to fix things. But let's not deny that Bush's folly was an unforced error, a foreign policy catastrophe of truly unique proportions in the annals of American history.