Saint Paul Putzola has Resigned his Commission.

The Great Plotnik hopes that America has finally come to see that it got what it wanted: a pompous, shallow, self-satisfied President whose view of the world is the definition of The Unexamined Life. After six years of watching one misstep after another, yesterday clinched it for TGP.

George is in Veet-nam. When asked what message he drew from seeing the prosperity of the new Hanoi, Bush said "What Vietnam tells me is that in Iraq, if we don't give up, we're gonna win."

Saint Paul Putzola, the Patron Saint of Blithering Idiots, has been looking over Bush's shoulder for six years, but yesterday he handed in his resignation. The President of the United States looks at the prospering capital of a country that kicked America out so that it could rule its own people and take care of its own business, and now has an economy that is the second fastest grower in Asia, and the message to GWB is that we should stay in Iraq?

In other words, if we had stayed in Vietnam a little longer, we could have...won? Won what? They're doing great. They're not our enemy any more. We did win. We got out.

What the hell is wrong with this man? Who does he think he's talking to?