“My friends, today we are better off, you are better off and the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. Your decision to go to war in Iraq was not an easy one but it was the right one.” – Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi addressed a joint meeting of Congress.

“The prime minister and the president are here obviously to put their best face on the policy, but the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story,” Kerry said.

It’s amazing that one man’s lifetime in a human meat grinder like Iraq, not to mention an assassination attempt, doesn’t seem to trump one dweeb from Massachusetts who had 4 1/2 months running a Swift boat up and down the Mekong River into the South China Sea.