Drop It Like It's Hard, George

In his fifth desperate PR speech in less than three weeks, Bush has become a beggar and a loser:

I do not expect you to support everything I do. But tonight I have a request: do not give in to despair and do not give up on this fight for "freedom"...

Meanwhile, Dick "Sideshow Bob" Cheney, perhaps stung by recent "chickenhawk" comments from Hillary Clinton, has made his first, totally unexpected (not even the Iraqi puppet PM knew he was coming) trip to Iraq. And the Big Dick has lost none of his fevered optimism:

I think the vast majority of them think of us as liberators!

Unfortunately, rhetoric only goes so far in trumping reality. And meanwhile...