Bush's Plagiarized Exit Strategy

On September 21st, Democratic Senator Joe Biden outlined an exit strategy for Iraq. Today, quite disingenuously, Scotty Mclellan claims it's nearly identical to the President's previously unpublished version. Scotty goes on to claim "broad bipartisan support" for the plan. Duh! When you steal it from the other side, it's guaranteed to have bipartisan support. I'm not claiming it's a bad plan by any stretch but it is rather interesting the lengths the Shrub will go to to keep "looking Presidential," even if it means plagiarizing a plan from the Democrats.

Now there may be a link between the Shrub's vaporware exit strategy and Joe Biden's published one. I'm a bit reluctant to believe that the Shrub, who has actively resisteded even talking about an exit from Iraq, is suddenly converted to the notion that we need to have a somewhat better strategy than to stay the course. By the way, what's our reason for being there this week? Pardon the digression. We had to have something better than honoring our fallen as a reason to stay. In the absence of a reason in our national interest to continue staying the course, Biden and the Democrats provided a way out. I can't blame the Shrub, who apparently has never considered how to end the war he lied to start, for copying it.

Gentlemen's C's, plagiarizing.... Hmmmm....