Iraqi borders secure, security forces in control.

What was Bush thinking with the Bernard Kerik nomination for Homeland [Die Heimat!] security?

NYT reports today:

"Mr. Kerik, Republicans said, was just the kind of plain-talking law-and-order man held in awe by the president.

"The president loves cops," said a Republican close to the White House who insisted on anonymity because he did not want the president and his advisers to know he was talking about an embarrassing blow-up of a cabinet nomination.

"They're not pretentious, they do a hard job, they don't get paid a lot of money [Just like Bush!], they're real people and they live in a world that is fairly black and white, with good guys and bad guys. And that's the way President Bush looks at the world."

Mr. Bush was especially grateful, White House officials said, that Mr. Kerik agreed to train a police force in Iraq in the summer of 2003..."

Yeah, that went well. He said at the time "I will be there at least six months - until the job is done," but left just three months later. Soon after, the UN compound was blown up. Mission Accomplished.

Read Sidney Blumenthal's take on this issue. It's hillarious. This guy has got his head so far up his tuchus...oy! Unglaub'