Robert Scheer's article in The San Francisco Chronicle is a prime example of someone with too little knowledge trying to make a point. His article Bush's fantasy of progress in Iraq is your typical, I hate the fact that we are in Iraq, President Bush is an idiot (possibly a fascist dictator too) and I'm going to prove it by focusing on anything negative that happens.

His entire article is based around the fact that there is violence in Iraq. GASP NO!?!?!? You're kidding?

And based on that violence ergo Iraq is a failure and there is absolutely no progress. Like most good useful idiots history began when he woke up in the morning to write this. Three successful elections be damned! Progress? What Progress?

Then at the end of his little rant he tried to actually make a point ... but as usual failed.

"Has the president never read our Constitution, which mandates civilian control over the military? Does he not grasp that he is himself a Washington politician? How can you effectively sell democracy to the world when you mock it so contemptuously at home?" - Robert Scheer

I'm sure he knows more about it than you do. I know I certainly do.

See Mr. Scheer, the President IS the "civilian control" of the military. Article 2, Section 2 "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States". Why and who was elected President in 2004? George W. Bush. And who elected him? The "civilians".

Listen, Mr. Scheer, I know that you have a specific worldview that you can't justify without making references to documents that you don't understand hoping that your readers are equally ignorant. But you know what? In the long run all you are doing is removing any doubt.

We know you don't like the fact that President George Bush actually said enough of Saddam Hussein violating the cease fire that saved his ass after the first Gulf War and he invaded Kuwait. We get it. You even say so

"But, of course, this alternative, to stop making U.S. troops targets in the midst of a raging civil war in a Muslim country that the United States has no business occupying, was summarily dismissed by our president." - Robert Scheer

We know that you want tyrants and dictators to continue on in power and be allowed to sign agreements and then do whatever they so choose. But hey, that is your problem, not ours.

Remember Saddam invaded Kuwait. He started the war. He got his ass kicked. He fled like a cowardly girl. He signed the cease-fire to keep us from kicking his ass further. He violated it time and again. So we finished the job. Remember Mr. Scheer, Saddam Hussein started it and chose to finish it. Maybe when you look at what happened before you woke up in the morning you might figure this one out.