I always cringe when I see a Mark Davis report. He's really sucked up to Joe in the past.

But, whoa, he doesn't try to sugarcoat this for Joe here. Before you even get to Joe's "big" speech, you see Davis waving around the NY Times and you see the headline "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsend Terrorism Threat" on-screen for 4 full seconds.

I hate to say it Dangerstein, but even those slow-reading low-information voters are going to be able to absorb that, and that's not good at all for Joe.

Devastating, in fact
 

What we are not hearing is why we were supposedly succeeding in Iraq, how "stay the course" was working, how the Iraqis had turned the corner to Democracy,

and it all went down the tube within the last six months. And how if we leave now, after having stayed the course only to watch everything fall apart, everything will fall apart.


So, in other words, we can't let our failure fail, until after we're gone. And we have someone else to blame.
 

Except that the NIE was a cherry-picked leak.