Huh?

Where do they get these people? Or perhaps Iraq is such a complete disaster that it induces this condition of incoherence.

From the New York Times on the subject of the newest U.S. initiative to raise troop numbers in Baghdad:

Mr. Hadley, the national security adviser, said the failure of the initial plan forced the administration to move to what he called “Phase II.”

But other officials said there was no Phase II in the previous plan.

“This is more like Plan B,” said one of Mr. Hadley’s associates...

Photo: An unidentified woman holds a sign to demonstrate next to the U.S. embassy in Berlin July 13, 2006. The sign reads: 'Mister President, Iraq's Oil Harms Your Reputation In The World'. REUTERS/TOBIAS SCHWARZ