An Elucidation Regarding Today's Description of the Iraqi Parliament:
So today the Rude Pundit called the Iraqi parliament a bunch of dicks for wanting to take a two-month vacation. Apparently, to some readers, that means all of a sudden the Rude Pundit is a big damn fan of the Bush administration. Apparently, you can't despise the war and think that when the speaker of the parliament says that the White House ought to "control Nancy Peolosi" is a generally dickish thing to say. Apparently, you can't call out the Iraqis without having to say, in the same post, that America's wrong, too.

Or you don't. And you can call a bunch of dicks a bunch of dicks in and of themselves. Or maybe you need to say there's reasons to call it off for the summer, like the way the politicians are bound to the demands of differing groups at odds in the country (which bespeaks both our ignorance and arrogance in going in there in the first place and the impossibility of the Iraqis to move beyond savage sectarianism). Or you can say, finally, at last, this is the excuse to withdraw. But our bunch of dicks, including Dick himself, won't even piss on that idea.

Correction: A couple of days ago, the Rude Pundit said that Rudy Giuliani was clenching his teeth in Iowa City. Not so. It was Cedar Rapids. Alas, Iowa, hope all is forgiven.