The administration surprised me...

I didn't think they would let him harp about the violence in Iraq.

Speaking today, he said he just wanted violence down enough to let the Iraqis work to improve things on there own.

Then he pointed out that, hey, their are violent places in the US...

Yup.

The "there are places in the US as bad as Iraq argument". You may remember, back when Tony Snow was with FOX News still, he compared the number of deaths in Iraq to deaths in various US states, to prove things were good in Iraq.

Here we are down to Bush making the argument. That is just sad.

So what will Mission Accomplished mean now? The average daily deaths and bombings get down just low enough.