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Let's not overanalyze this, folks.
The PERFECT allegory for the situation in Iraq, right from the first day of the Bush43 presidency, is the annual "Peanuts" event where Lucy entices Charlie Brown into trying ONE MORE TIME to kick that blasted football. Dubya (and his cronies) are Lucy, and this naive, trusting country is Charlie Brown.
Against our better judgment, and relying on equal parts hope, trust and foolishness, we decide to take one more swipe at that darn football, only to have it yanked away once again at the last moment.
As any sane, reality-based person would have predicted, we land on our collective backsides with a "WHAM!" So it has gone, and will continue to go, in Iraq as long as the same discredited Bush43 crowd leads us -- and as long we agree to follow.
Perhaps the only consolation is that our national Charlie Brown is starting to recognize, at long last, our presidential Lucy for what she is -- an incorrigible liar far more adept at talking than doing anything constructive.
