U.S. Not Winning War in Iraq, Bush Says for 1st Time

Although this is news to the press --- the pubic has known for some time that the war in Iraq is lost - hence the November election results and Bush's disasterous approval ratings in his handling of the war.

What is surprising is that the press is calling this an acknowledgement. What the hell kind of acknowledgement is "we're not winning, we're not losing?" That's like the weather forecaster saying "It may rain, it may not." or your doctor saying "Maybe it's cancer, maybe it's not" or your pregnancy test saying "maybe you're pregnant, maybe not." His words mean absolutely NOTHING. What his words DO show us is that he has absolutely no idea of what's going on over there and even worse he has no idea how to fix it.

President Bush acknowledged for the first time yesterday that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and said he plans to expand the overall size of the "stressed" U.S. armed forces to meet the challenges of a long-term global struggle against terrorists.

As he searches for a new strategy for Iraq, Bush has now adopted the formula advanced by his top military adviser to describe the situation. "We're not winning, we're not losing," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. The assessment was a striking reversal for a president who, days before the November elections, declared, "Absolutely, we're winning."